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.
ALAN COOPERJust how do I design if not with prototyping? An excellent question. The short answer is ‘on paper.’
More Alan Cooper Quotes
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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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We don’t fight about music. We don’t fight about artistic direction.
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If we want users to like our software we should design it to behave like a likeable person: respectful, generous and helpful.
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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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And as soon as any object exhibits sufficient cognitive function, those instincts kick in and we react as though we were interacting with another sentient human being.
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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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My computer’s memory stores a million phone numbers with perfect accuracy, but I have to stop and think to recall my own.
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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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You Don’t Have to Go Home from Work Exhausted!
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Because computers have memories, we imagine that they must be something like our human memories, but that is simply not true.
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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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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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The things like that we could fight about, we really don’t. We are pretty lucky for that.
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Design principle: Take things away until the design breaks, then put that last thing back in.
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One of the most heinous, insidious lies is the notion that you have to be an asshole to be a successful business person.
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