Just how do I design if not with prototyping? An excellent question. The short answer is ‘on paper.’
ALAN COOPERComputers no longer interface with humans–they interact, and the interaction will become steadily deeper, more subtle, and more crucial to our collective sanity and ultimate survival.
More Alan Cooper Quotes
-
-
Men do not greet one another like this … except perhaps at rugby club dinners.
ALAN COOPER -
Design principle: Take things away until the design breaks, then put that last thing back in.
ALAN COOPER -
Define what the product will do before you design how the product will do it.
ALAN COOPER -
The things like that we could fight about, we really don’t. We are pretty lucky for that.
ALAN COOPER -
There’s only one thing you can use against pure logic, and that’s common sense.
ALAN COOPER -
In other words, humans have special instincts that tell them how to behave around other sentient beings.
ALAN COOPER -
One of the most heinous, insidious lies is the notion that you have to be an asshole to be a successful business person.
ALAN COOPER -
Computers no longer interface with humans–they interact, and the interaction will become steadily deeper, more subtle, and more crucial to our collective sanity and ultimate survival.
ALAN COOPER -
It has been said that the great scientific disciplines are examples of giants standing on the shoulders of other giants.
ALAN COOPER -
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 -
I’m an ‘evolve or die’ kind of a musician. I think it’s cool to try new things.
ALAN COOPER -
Run for your lives-the computers are invading. Awesomely powerful computers tackling ever more important tasks with awkward, old-fashioned interfaces.
ALAN COOPER -
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 -
Because computers have memories, we imagine that they must be something like our human memories, but that is simply not true.
ALAN COOPER -
It has also been said that the software industry is an example of midgets standing on the toes of other midgets.
ALAN COOPER