If we want users to like our software we should design it to behave like a likeable person: respectful, generous and helpful.
ALAN COOPERWhile making art you should just do what is in your heart.
More Alan Cooper Quotes
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While making art you should just do what is in your heart.
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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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Form follows function straight to hell.
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Computers no longer interface with humans–they interact, and the interaction will become steadily deeper, more subtle, and more crucial to our collective sanity and ultimate survival.
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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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Just how do I design if not with prototyping? An excellent question. The short answer is ‘on paper.’
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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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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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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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You Don’t Have to Go Home from Work Exhausted!
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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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My computer’s memory stores a million phone numbers with perfect accuracy, but I have to stop and think to recall my own.
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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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There’s only one thing you can use against pure logic, and that’s common sense.
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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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