It has been said that the great scientific disciplines are examples of giants standing on the shoulders of other giants.
ALAN COOPERIf you are making a chair, the sandpaper can make it smoother. But no amount of sandpaper will turn a chair into a table.
More Alan Cooper Quotes
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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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I’m an ‘evolve or die’ kind of a musician. I think it’s cool to try new things.
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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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There is little difference technically between a complicated, confusing program and a simple, fun, and powerful product.
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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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Past dreams of bliss our lives contain, And slight the chords that still retain A heart estranged to joys again,
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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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Typography should not vary widely in an interface.
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In other words, humans have special instincts that tell them how to behave around other sentient beings.
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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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To our human minds, computers behave less like rocks and trees than they do like humans, so we unconsciously treat them like people.
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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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Define what the product will do before you design how the product will do it.
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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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You Don’t Have to Go Home from Work Exhausted!
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