While making art you should just do what is in your heart.
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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There’s only one thing you can use against pure logic, and that’s common sense.
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Computer memories work in a manner alien to human memories. My memory lets me recognize the faces of my friends, whereas my own computer never even recognizes me.
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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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You Don’t Have to Go Home from Work Exhausted!
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Because computers have memories, we imagine that they must be something like our human memories, but that is simply not true.
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It’s harder than you might think to squander millions of dollars, but a flawed software development process is a tool well suited to the job.
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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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I’m a huge believer in putting music out as quickly as early as possible.
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It has also been said that the software industry is an example of midgets standing on the toes of other midgets.
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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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Past dreams of bliss our lives contain, And slight the chords that still retain A heart estranged to joys again,
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Just how do I design if not with prototyping? An excellent question. The short answer is ‘on paper.’
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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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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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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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