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.
ALAN COOPERYou Don’t Have to Go Home from Work Exhausted!
More Alan Cooper Quotes
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And as soon as any object exhibits sufficient cognitive function, those instincts kick in and we react as though we were interacting with another sentient human being.
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Past dreams of bliss our lives contain, And slight the chords that still retain A heart estranged to joys again,
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Men do not greet one another like this … except perhaps at rugby club dinners.
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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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Because computers have memories, we imagine that they must be something like our human memories, but that is simply not true.
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We seem to be keeping old fans and are bringing on new fans that are teenagers. I think that is amazing.
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Design principle: Take things away until the design breaks, then put that last thing back in.
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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 your persona has goals and the product has magical powers to meet them, how simple could the interaction be? This kind of thinking is useful to help designers look outside the box.
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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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No matter how beautiful, no matter how cool your interface, it would be better if there were less of it.
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Usability methods are like sandpapering a chair.
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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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Ironically, the thing that will likely make the least improvement in the ease of use of software-based products is new technology.
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As these machines leak into every corner of our lives, they will annoy us, infuriate us, and even kill a few of us.
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