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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?

Alan Cooper

If we want users to like our software we should design it to behave like a likeable person: respectful, generous and helpful.
ALAN COOPER

Behave Design Generous Helpful Likeable Person Respect Software User
To our human minds, computers behave less like rocks and trees than they do like humans, so we unconsciously treat them like people.
ALAN COOPER

Behave Computer Human Less Like Rock Mind People Treat Tree Unconsciously
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

Different Experiment Just Keep Kind Like Make Music Over Record Same Want
You Don’t Have to Go Home from Work Exhausted!
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Exhaust Go Home Work
Design principle: Take things away until the design breaks, then put that last thing back in.
ALAN COOPER

Back Break Design Last Principle Thing
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.
ALAN COOPER

Being Human Interact Object React Sentiment Soon Sufficient
Run for your lives-the computers are invading. Awesomely powerful computers tackling ever more important tasks with awkward, old-fashioned interfaces.
ALAN COOPER

Computer Invade Life Live Run
Well madam, have you looked in the mirror and seen the state of your nose? Boxing is my excuse. What’s yours?
ALAN COOPER

Boxing Excuse Look Madam Mirror Nose Seen State Well
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.
ALAN COOPER

Break Need Next One Out Put Record Tour Work
Keep it simple: In general, interfaces should use simple geometric forms, minimal contours, and a restricted color palette comprised primarily of less-saturated or neutral colors balanced with a few high contrast accent colors that emphasize important information.
ALAN COOPER

Balance Color Contour Contrast Form General Geometric High Interface Keep Minimal Palette Restrict Should Simple
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

Around Branch Foster Memory Scene Silver Sprung Tendril Until Vine Young
My computer’s memory stores a million phone numbers with perfect accuracy, but I have to stop and think to recall my own.
ALAN COOPER

Accuracy Stop Computer Memory Million Number Own Perfect Phone Recall Store
There’s only one thing you can use against pure logic, and that’s common sense.
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Against Common Logic One Only Pure Sense Thing
If you are making a chair, the sandpaper can make it smoother. But no amount of sandpaper will turn a chair into a table.
ALAN COOPER

Amount Chair Make Sandpaper Smoother Table Turn
The things like that we could fight about, we really don’t. We are pretty lucky for that.
ALAN COOPER

Could Fight Lucky Pretty Really Thing
If you are not going to produce albums then you are not going to produce new fans. It’s impossible.
ALAN COOPER

Album Believer Early Fan Go Huge Impossible New Possible Produce Put Quickly

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