Run for your lives-the computers are invading. Awesomely powerful computers tackling ever more important tasks with awkward, old-fashioned interfaces.
ALAN COOPERRun for your lives-the computers are invading. Awesomely powerful computers tackling ever more important tasks with awkward, old-fashioned interfaces.
More Alan Cooper Quotes
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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 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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Touring hard and then working on putting the next one out. I don’t need to break. I just need to put a record out.
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Form follows function straight to hell.
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I’m a huge believer in putting music out as quickly as early as possible.
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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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You Don’t Have to Go Home from Work Exhausted!
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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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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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I’m an ‘evolve or die’ kind of a musician. I think it’s cool to try new things.
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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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Men do not greet one another like this … except perhaps at rugby club dinners.
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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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The things like that we could fight about, we really don’t. We are pretty lucky for that.
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