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Design principle: Take things away until the design breaks, then put that last thing back in.

Alan Cooper

Men do not greet one another like this … except perhaps at rugby club dinners.
ALAN COOPER

Another Club Dinner Except Geet Men One Perhaps Rugby
Well madam, have you looked in the mirror and seen the state of your nose? Boxing is my excuse. What’s yours?
ALAN COOPER

Boxing Excuse Look Madam Mirror Nose Seen State Well
Ironically, the thing that will likely make the least improvement in the ease of use of software-based products is new technology.
ALAN COOPER

Ease Improvement Ironically Least Likely New Product Software Technology Thing Use
While making art you should just do what is in your heart.
ALAN COOPER

Do Heart Just Make
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

Amount Chair Make Sandpaper Smoother Table Turn
To scenes by memory’s silver chain Close-linked, and ever yet apart, That like the vine, whose tendrils young Around some fostering branch have clung, Grown with its growth, as tho’ it sprung From one united heart.
ALAN COOPER

Around Branch Foster Memory Scene Silver Sprung Tendril Until Vine Young
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.
ALAN COOPER

Balance Color Contour Contrast Form General Geometric High Interface Keep Minimal Palette Restrict Should Simple
To our human minds, computers behave less like rocks and trees than they do like humans, so we unconsciously treat them like people.
ALAN COOPER

Behave Computer Human Less Like Rock Mind People Treat Tree Unconsciously
It has been said that the great scientific disciplines are examples of giants standing on the shoulders of other giants.
ALAN COOPER

Discipline Example Geat Giant Other Scientific Shoulder Stand
Run for your lives-the computers are invading. Awesomely powerful computers tackling ever more important tasks with awkward, old-fashioned interfaces.
ALAN COOPER

Computer Invade Life Live Run
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

Before Business Certain Father Good Husband Just Learn Rock Star Thing Try
The things like that we could fight about, we really don’t. We are pretty lucky for that.
ALAN COOPER

Could Fight Lucky Pretty Really Thing
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.
ALAN COOPER

Affect Dep Fell Love Music Show Teenager Way
There’s only one thing you can use against pure logic, and that’s common sense.
ALAN COOPER

Against Common Logic One Only Pure Sense Thing
Typography should not vary widely in an interface.
ALAN COOPER

Interfere Typography Vary Widely
You Don’t Have to Go Home from Work Exhausted!
ALAN COOPER

Exhaust Go Home Work

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