There is little difference technically between a complicated, confusing program and a simple, fun, and powerful product.
ALAN COOPERUsability methods are like sandpapering a chair.
More Alan Cooper Quotes
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While making art you should just do what is in your heart.
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In turn, we will be tempted to kill our computers, but we won’t dare because we are already utterly, irreversibly dependent on these hopeful monsters that make modern life possible.
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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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You Don’t Have to Go Home from Work Exhausted!
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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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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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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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English bohemians sit in cold orderly rows, like carrots.
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Define what the product will do before you design how the product will do it.
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It has also been said that the software industry is an example of midgets standing on the toes of other midgets.
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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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Men do not greet one another like this … except perhaps at rugby club dinners.
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When I was a teenager, that was when I fell in love with music. It affected me in a deep way. That’s why I love having teenagers at our shows.
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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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