Define what the product will do before you design how the product will do it.
ALAN COOPERDesign principle: Take things away until the design breaks, then put that last thing back in.
More Alan Cooper Quotes
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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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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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You Don’t Have to Go Home from Work Exhausted!
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While making art you should just do what is in your heart.
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We don’t fight about music. We don’t fight about artistic direction.
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Men do not greet one another like this … except perhaps at rugby club dinners.
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Keep it simple: In general, interfaces should use simple geometric forms, minimal contours, and a restricted color palette comprised primarily of less-saturated or neutral colors balanced with a few high contrast accent colors that emphasize important information.
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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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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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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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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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You can get spiritual things out of books and stories and they have nothing to do with religion.
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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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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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The things like that we could fight about, we really don’t. We are pretty lucky for that.
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