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.
ALAN COOPERWhile making art you should just do what is in your heart.
More Alan Cooper Quotes
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We don’t fight about music. We don’t fight about artistic direction.
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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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Form follows function straight to hell.
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Define what the product will do before you design how the product will do it.
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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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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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You Don’t Have to Go Home from Work Exhausted!
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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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You can get spiritual things out of books and stories and they have nothing to do with religion.
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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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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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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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Just how do I design if not with prototyping? An excellent question. The short answer is ‘on paper.’
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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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While making art you should just do what is in your heart.
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