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.
ALAN COOPERWhile making art you should just do what is in your heart.
More Alan Cooper Quotes
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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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Define what the product will do before you design how the product will do it.
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Run for your lives-the computers are invading. Awesomely powerful computers tackling ever more important tasks with awkward, old-fashioned interfaces.
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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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If you are making a chair, the sandpaper can make it smoother. But no amount of sandpaper will turn a chair into a table.
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It’s harder than you might think to squander millions of dollars, but a flawed software development process is a tool well suited to the job.
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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?
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While making art you should just do what is in your heart.
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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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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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Usability methods are like sandpapering a chair.
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There’s only one thing you can use against pure logic, and that’s common sense.
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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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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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English bohemians sit in cold orderly rows, like carrots.
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