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.
ALAN COOPERTouring hard and then working on putting the next one out. I don’t need to break. I just need to put a record out.
More Alan Cooper Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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There is little difference technically between a complicated, confusing program and a simple, fun, and powerful product.
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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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Usability methods are like sandpapering a chair.
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Form follows function straight to hell.
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Design principle: Take things away until the design breaks, then put that last thing back in.
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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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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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