There is little difference technically between a complicated, confusing program and a simple, fun, and powerful product.
ALAN COOPERI 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.
More Alan Cooper Quotes
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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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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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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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Define what the product will do before you design how the product will do it.
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There’s only one thing you can use against pure logic, and that’s common sense.
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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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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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Form follows function straight to hell.
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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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The things like that we could fight about, we really don’t. We are pretty lucky for that.
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Keep it simple: In general, interfaces should use simple geometric forms, minimal contours, and a restricted color palette comprised primarily of less-saturated or neutral colors balanced with a few high contrast accent colors that emphasize important information.
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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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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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Typography should not vary widely in an interface.
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