You can get spiritual things out of books and stories and they have nothing to do with religion.
ALAN COOPERIt has also been said that the software industry is an example of midgets standing on the toes of other midgets.
More Alan Cooper Quotes
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Typography should not vary widely in an interface.
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Design principle: Take things away until the design breaks, then put that last thing back in.
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Form follows function straight to hell.
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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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Men do not greet one another like this … except perhaps at rugby club dinners.
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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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When I was a teenager, that was when I fell in love with music. It affected me in a deep way. That’s why I love having teenagers at our shows.
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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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Usability methods are like sandpapering a chair.
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I’m a huge believer in putting music out as quickly as early as possible.
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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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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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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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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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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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