My computer’s memory stores a million phone numbers with perfect accuracy, but I have to stop and think to recall my own.
ALAN COOPERThe things like that we could fight about, we really don’t. We are pretty lucky for that.
More Alan Cooper Quotes
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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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While making art you should just do what is in your 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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English bohemians sit in cold orderly rows, like carrots.
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Form follows function straight to hell.
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In other words, humans have special instincts that tell them how to behave around other sentient beings.
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To our human minds, computers behave less like rocks and trees than they do like humans, so we unconsciously treat them like people.
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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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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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Design principle: Take things away until the design breaks, then put that last thing back in.
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When I was a teenager, that was when I fell in love with music. It affected me in a deep way. That’s why I love having teenagers at our shows.
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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 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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There’s only one thing you can use against pure logic, and that’s common sense.
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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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