English bohemians sit in cold orderly rows, like carrots.
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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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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We don’t fight about music. We don’t fight about artistic direction.
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If your persona has goals and the product has magical powers to meet them, how simple could the interaction be? This kind of thinking is useful to help designers look outside the box.
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If you are not going to produce albums then you are not going to produce new fans. It’s impossible.
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Define what the product will do before you design how the product will do it.
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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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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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I’m a huge believer in putting music out as quickly as early as possible.
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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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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 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.
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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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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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The things like that we could fight about, we really don’t. We are pretty lucky for that.
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