Define what the product will do before you design how the product will do it.
ALAN COOPERIf we want users to like our software we should design it to behave like a likeable person: respectful, generous and helpful.
More Alan Cooper Quotes
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Typography should not vary widely in an interface.
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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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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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We don’t fight about music. We don’t fight about artistic direction.
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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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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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Past dreams of bliss our lives contain, And slight the chords that still retain A heart estranged to joys again,
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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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There’s only one thing you can use against pure logic, and that’s common sense.
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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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While making art you should just do what is in your heart.
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Usability methods are like sandpapering a chair.
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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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No matter how beautiful, no matter how cool your interface, it would be better if there were less of it.
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I’m a huge believer in putting music out as quickly as early as possible.
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