Design principle: Take things away until the design breaks, then put that last thing back in.
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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There is little difference technically between a complicated, confusing program and a simple, fun, and powerful product.
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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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It has been said that the great scientific disciplines are examples of giants standing on the shoulders of other giants.
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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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There’s only one thing you can use against pure logic, and that’s common sense.
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Usability methods are like sandpapering a chair.
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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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The things like that we could fight about, we really don’t. We are pretty lucky for that.
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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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Men do not greet one another like this … except perhaps at rugby club dinners.
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If you are not going to produce albums then you are not going to produce new fans. It’s impossible.
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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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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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You can get spiritual things out of books and stories and they have nothing to do with religion.
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While making art you should just do what is in your heart.
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