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.
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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A powerful tool in the early stages of developing scenarios is to pretend the interface is magic.
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You Don’t Have to Go Home from Work Exhausted!
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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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There’s only one thing you can use against pure logic, and that’s common sense.
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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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Form follows function straight to hell.
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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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Typography should not vary widely in an interface.
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Define what the product will do before you design how the product will do it.
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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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Design principle: Take things away until the design breaks, then put that last thing back in.
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Men do not greet one another like this … except perhaps at rugby club dinners.
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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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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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