If you are making a chair, the sandpaper can make it smoother. But no amount of sandpaper will turn a chair into a table.
ALAN COOPERTypography should not vary widely in an interface.
More Alan Cooper Quotes
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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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There is little difference technically between a complicated, confusing program and a simple, fun, and powerful product.
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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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I’m a huge believer in putting music out as quickly as early as possible.
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We seem to be keeping old fans and are bringing on new fans that are teenagers. I think that is amazing.
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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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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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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 has also been said that the software industry is an example of midgets standing on the toes of other midgets.
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Usability methods are like sandpapering a chair.
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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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There’s only one thing you can use against pure logic, and that’s common sense.
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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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Well madam, have you looked in the mirror and seen the state of your nose? Boxing is my excuse. What’s yours?
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We don’t fight about music. We don’t fight about artistic direction.
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