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.
ALAN COOPERUsability methods are like sandpapering a chair.
More Alan Cooper Quotes
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Form follows function straight to hell.
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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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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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One of the most heinous, insidious lies is the notion that you have to be an asshole to be a successful business person.
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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.
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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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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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We don’t fight about music. We don’t fight about artistic direction.
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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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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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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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A powerful tool in the early stages of developing scenarios is to pretend the interface is magic.
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While making art you should just do what is in your heart.
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There is little difference technically between a complicated, confusing program and a simple, fun, and powerful product.
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Men do not greet one another like this … except perhaps at rugby club dinners.
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