Run for your lives-the computers are invading. Awesomely powerful computers tackling ever more important tasks with awkward, old-fashioned interfaces.
ALAN COOPERDesign principle: Take things away until the design breaks, then put that last thing back in.
More Alan Cooper Quotes
-
-
Typography should not vary widely in an interface.
ALAN COOPER -
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.
ALAN COOPER -
I’m a huge believer in putting music out as quickly as early as possible.
ALAN COOPER -
Men do not greet one another like this … except perhaps at rugby club dinners.
ALAN COOPER -
It has been said that the great scientific disciplines are examples of giants standing on the shoulders of other giants.
ALAN COOPER -
Ironically, the thing that will likely make the least improvement in the ease of use of software-based products is new technology.
ALAN COOPER -
In other words, humans have special instincts that tell them how to behave around other sentient beings.
ALAN COOPER -
Design principle: Take things away until the design breaks, then put that last thing back in.
ALAN COOPER -
There’s only one thing you can use against pure logic, and that’s common sense.
ALAN COOPER -
You Don’t Have to Go Home from Work Exhausted!
ALAN COOPER -
I just like so many different kinds of music that I like experimenting. I don’t want to keep making the same record over and over and over.
ALAN COOPER -
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 COOPER -
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.
ALAN COOPER -
Form follows function straight to hell.
ALAN COOPER -
I’m an ‘evolve or die’ kind of a musician. I think it’s cool to try new things.
ALAN COOPER