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Usability methods are like sandpapering a chair.

Alan Cooper

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 COOPER

Before Business Certain Father Good Husband Just Learn Rock Star Thing Try
Men do not greet one another like this … except perhaps at rugby club dinners.
ALAN COOPER

Another Club Dinner Except Geet Men One Perhaps Rugby
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.
ALAN COOPER

Around Branch Foster Memory Scene Silver Sprung Tendril Until Vine Young
I’m an ‘evolve or die’ kind of a musician. I think it’s cool to try new things.
ALAN COOPER

Cool Die Evolve Kind Musician New Thing Try
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.
ALAN COOPER

Being Human Interact Object React Sentiment Soon Sufficient
My computer’s memory stores a million phone numbers with perfect accuracy, but I have to stop and think to recall my own.
ALAN COOPER

Accuracy Stop Computer Memory Million Number Own Perfect Phone Recall Store
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.
ALAN COOPER

Box Designer Goal Help Magical Person Power Simply Think Useful
There’s only one thing you can use against pure logic, and that’s common sense.
ALAN COOPER

Against Common Logic One Only Pure Sense Thing
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.
ALAN COOPER

Different Experiment Just Keep Kind Like Make Music Over Record Same Want
If you are making a chair, the sandpaper can make it smoother. But no amount of sandpaper will turn a chair into a table.
ALAN COOPER

Amount Chair Make Sandpaper Smoother Table Turn
If you are not going to produce albums then you are not going to produce new fans. It’s impossible.
ALAN COOPER

Album Believer Early Fan Go Huge Impossible New Possible Produce Put Quickly
Typography should not vary widely in an interface.
ALAN COOPER

Interfere Typography Vary Widely
Run for your lives-the computers are invading. Awesomely powerful computers tackling ever more important tasks with awkward, old-fashioned interfaces.
ALAN COOPER

Computer Invade Life Live Run
You can get spiritual things out of books and stories and they have nothing to do with religion.
ALAN COOPER

Book Nothing Out Religion Spiritual Story Thing
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.
ALAN COOPER

Balance Color Contour Contrast Form General Geometric High Interface Keep Minimal Palette Restrict Should Simple
While making art you should just do what is in your heart.
ALAN COOPER

Do Heart Just Make

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