Past dreams of bliss our lives contain, And slight the chords that still retain A heart estranged to joys again,
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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There is little difference technically between a complicated, confusing program and a simple, fun, and powerful product.
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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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In other words, humans have special instincts that tell them how to behave around other sentient beings.
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Typography should not vary widely in an interface.
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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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While making art you should just do what is in your heart.
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Men do not greet one another like this … except perhaps at rugby club dinners.
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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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A powerful tool in the early stages of developing scenarios is to pretend the interface is magic.
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You can get spiritual things out of books and stories and they have nothing to do with religion.
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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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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.
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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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Form follows function straight to hell.
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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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