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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There is little difference technically between a complicated, confusing program and a simple, fun, and powerful product.
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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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There’s only one thing you can use against pure logic, and that’s common sense.
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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.
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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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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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Form follows function straight to hell.
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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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If you are not going to produce albums then you are not going to produce new fans. It’s impossible.
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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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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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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 seem to be keeping old fans and are bringing on new fans that are teenagers. I think that is amazing.
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I’m a huge believer in putting music out as quickly as early as possible.
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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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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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No matter how beautiful, no matter how cool your interface, it would be better if there were less of it.
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Typography should not vary widely in an interface.
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We don’t fight about music. We don’t fight about artistic direction.
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While making art you should just do what is in your heart.
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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 can get spiritual things out of books and stories and they have nothing to do with religion.
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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 has been said that the great scientific disciplines are examples of giants standing on the shoulders of other giants.
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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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I’m an ‘evolve or die’ kind of a musician. I think it’s cool to try new things.
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