If we want users to like our software we should design it to behave like a likeable person: respectful, generous and helpful.
ALAN COOPERIt has been said that the great scientific disciplines are examples of giants standing on the shoulders of other giants.
More Alan Cooper Quotes
-
-
Design principle: Take things away until the design breaks, then put that last thing back in.
ALAN COOPER -
No matter how beautiful, no matter how cool your interface, it would be better if there were less of it.
ALAN COOPER -
Typography should not vary widely in an interface.
ALAN COOPER -
The things like that we could fight about, we really don’t. We are pretty lucky for that.
ALAN COOPER -
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.
ALAN COOPER -
As these machines leak into every corner of our lives, they will annoy us, infuriate us, and even kill a few of us.
ALAN COOPER -
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.
ALAN COOPER -
I’m an ‘evolve or die’ kind of a musician. I think it’s cool to try new things.
ALAN COOPER -
It has been said that the great scientific disciplines are examples of giants standing on the shoulders of other giants.
ALAN COOPER -
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.
ALAN COOPER -
We don’t fight about music. We don’t fight about artistic direction.
ALAN COOPER -
If you are not going to produce albums then you are not going to produce new fans. It’s impossible.
ALAN COOPER -
Past dreams of bliss our lives contain, And slight the chords that still retain A heart estranged to joys again,
ALAN COOPER -
A powerful tool in the early stages of developing scenarios is to pretend the interface is magic.
ALAN COOPER -
While making art you should just do what is in your heart.
ALAN COOPER