I’m a huge believer in putting music out as quickly as early as possible.
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
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You Don’t Have to Go Home from Work Exhausted!
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It has been said that the great scientific disciplines are examples of giants standing on the shoulders of other giants.
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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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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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Past dreams of bliss our lives contain, And slight the chords that still retain A heart estranged to joys again,
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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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Men do not greet one another like this … except perhaps at rugby club dinners.
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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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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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English bohemians sit in cold orderly rows, like carrots.
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Well madam, have you looked in the mirror and seen the state of your nose? Boxing is my excuse. What’s yours?
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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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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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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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The things like that we could fight about, we really don’t. We are pretty lucky for that.
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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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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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There is little difference technically between a complicated, confusing program and a simple, fun, and powerful product.
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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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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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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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There’s only one thing you can use against pure logic, and that’s common sense.
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Touring hard and then working on putting the next one out. I don’t need to break. I just need to put a record out.
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Usability methods are like sandpapering a chair.
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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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