Define what the product will do before you design how the product will do it.
ALAN COOPERNo matter how beautiful, no matter how cool your interface, it would be better if there were less of it.
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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Men do not greet one another like this … except perhaps at rugby club dinners.
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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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While making art you should just do what is in your heart.
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Well madam, have you looked in the mirror and seen the state of your nose? Boxing is my excuse. What’s yours?
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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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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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There is little difference technically between a complicated, confusing program and a simple, fun, and powerful product.
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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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You can get spiritual things out of books and stories and they have nothing to do with religion.
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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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You Don’t Have to Go Home from Work Exhausted!
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English bohemians sit in cold orderly rows, like carrots.
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To our human minds, computers behave less like rocks and trees than they do like humans, so we unconsciously treat them like people.
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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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