If you are making a chair, the sandpaper can make it smoother. But no amount of sandpaper will turn a chair into a table.
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More Alan Cooper Quotes
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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’m a huge believer in putting music out as quickly as early as possible.
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You can get spiritual things out of books and stories and they have nothing to do with religion.
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I’m an ‘evolve or die’ kind of a musician. I think it’s cool to try new things.
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A powerful tool in the early stages of developing scenarios is to pretend the interface is magic.
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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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To scenes by memory’s silver chain Close-linked, and ever yet apart, That like the vine, whose tendrils young Around some fostering branch have clung, Grown with its growth, as tho’ it sprung From one united heart.
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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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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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Form follows function straight to hell.
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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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Just how do I design if not with prototyping? An excellent question. The short answer is ‘on paper.’
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Well madam, have you looked in the mirror and seen the state of your nose? Boxing is my excuse. What’s yours?
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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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In other words, humans have special instincts that tell them how to behave around other sentient beings.
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