There’s only one thing you can use against pure logic, and that’s common sense.
ALAN COOPERWell madam, have you looked in the mirror and seen the state of your nose? Boxing is my excuse. What’s yours?
More Alan Cooper Quotes
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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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Define what the product will do before you design how the product will do it.
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You Don’t Have to Go Home from Work Exhausted!
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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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No matter how beautiful, no matter how cool your interface, it would be better if there were less of it.
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Usability methods are like sandpapering a chair.
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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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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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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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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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Past dreams of bliss our lives contain, And slight the chords that still retain A heart estranged to joys again,
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Ironically, the thing that will likely make the least improvement in the ease of use of software-based products is new technology.
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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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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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While making art you should just do what is in your heart.
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