We don’t fight about music. We don’t fight about artistic direction.
ALAN COOPERYou can get spiritual things out of books and stories and they have nothing to do with religion.
More Alan Cooper Quotes
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Keep it simple: In general, interfaces should use simple geometric forms, minimal contours, and a restricted color palette comprised primarily of less-saturated or neutral colors balanced with a few high contrast accent colors that emphasize important information.
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Touring hard and then working on putting the next one out. I don’t need to break. I just need to put a record out.
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English bohemians sit in cold orderly rows, like carrots.
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I just try and learn to be a good husband and be a good father before I am a good rock star. That means saying no to certain things that go with the business.
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Design principle: Take things away until the design breaks, then put that last thing back in.
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No matter how beautiful, no matter how cool your interface, it would be better if there were less of it.
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Run for your lives-the computers are invading. Awesomely powerful computers tackling ever more important tasks with awkward, old-fashioned interfaces.
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It’s harder than you might think to squander millions of dollars, but a flawed software development process is a tool well suited to the job.
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If you are not going to produce albums then you are not going to produce new fans. It’s impossible.
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Computer memories work in a manner alien to human memories. My memory lets me recognize the faces of my friends, whereas my own computer never even recognizes me.
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There’s only one thing you can use against pure logic, and that’s common sense.
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There is little difference technically between a complicated, confusing program and a simple, fun, and powerful product.
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To our human minds, computers behave less like rocks and trees than they do like humans, so we unconsciously treat them like people.
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My computer’s memory stores a million phone numbers with perfect accuracy, but I have to stop and think to recall my own.
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I just like so many different kinds of music that I like experimenting. I don’t want to keep making the same record over and over and over.
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