You can get spiritual things out of books and stories and they have nothing to do with religion.
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More Alan Cooper Quotes
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Define what the product will do before you design how the product will do it.
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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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Form follows function straight to hell.
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English bohemians sit in cold orderly rows, like carrots.
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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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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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In other words, humans have special instincts that tell them how to behave around other sentient beings.
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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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Design principle: Take things away until the design breaks, then put that last thing back in.
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While making art you should just do what is in your heart.
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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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There’s only one thing you can use against pure logic, and that’s common sense.
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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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The things like that we could fight about, we really don’t. We are pretty lucky for that.
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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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If you are not going to produce albums then you are not going to produce new fans. It’s impossible.
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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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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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Men do not greet one another like this … except perhaps at rugby club dinners.
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If we want users to like our software we should design it to behave like a likeable person: respectful, generous and helpful.
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I’m a huge believer in putting music out as quickly as early as possible.
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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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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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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 don’t fight about music. We don’t fight about artistic direction.
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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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