We don’t fight about music. We don’t fight about artistic direction.
ALAN COOPERMen do not greet one another like this … except perhaps at rugby club dinners.
More Alan Cooper Quotes
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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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I’m a huge believer in putting music out as quickly as early as possible.
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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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No matter how beautiful, no matter how cool your interface, it would be better if there were less of it.
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While making art you should just do what is in your heart.
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There’s only one thing you can use against pure logic, and that’s common sense.
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It has also been said that the software industry is an example of midgets standing on the toes of other midgets.
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Design principle: Take things away until the design breaks, then put that last thing back in.
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Define what the product will do before you design how the product will do it.
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English bohemians sit in cold orderly rows, like carrots.
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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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Typography should not vary widely in an interface.
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As these machines leak into every corner of our lives, they will annoy us, infuriate us, and even kill a few of us.
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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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Ironically, the thing that will likely make the least improvement in the ease of use of software-based products is new technology.
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