You Don’t Have to Go Home from Work Exhausted!
ALAN COOPERTo 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.
More Alan Cooper Quotes
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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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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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Just how do I design if not with prototyping? An excellent question. The short answer is ‘on paper.’
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Men do not greet one another like this … except perhaps at rugby club dinners.
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If we want users to like our software we should design it to behave like a likeable person: respectful, generous and helpful.
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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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Usability methods are like sandpapering a chair.
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There’s only one thing you can use against pure logic, and that’s common sense.
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English bohemians sit in cold orderly rows, like carrots.
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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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A powerful tool in the early stages of developing scenarios is to pretend the interface is magic.
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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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Run for your lives-the computers are invading. Awesomely powerful computers tackling ever more important tasks with awkward, old-fashioned interfaces.
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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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It has been said that the great scientific disciplines are examples of giants standing on the shoulders of other giants.
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