We don’t fight about music. We don’t fight about artistic direction.
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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You Don’t Have to Go Home from Work Exhausted!
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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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There’s only one thing you can use against pure logic, and that’s common sense.
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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.
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Typography should not vary widely in an interface.
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I’m a huge believer in putting music out as quickly as early as possible.
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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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As these machines leak into every corner of our lives, they will annoy us, infuriate us, and even kill a few of us.
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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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There is little difference technically between a complicated, confusing program and a simple, fun, and powerful product.
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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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English bohemians sit in cold orderly rows, like carrots.
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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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Usability methods are like sandpapering a chair.
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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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One of the most heinous, insidious lies is the notion that you have to be an asshole to be a successful business person.
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Men do not greet one another like this … except perhaps at rugby club dinners.
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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.
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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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In other words, humans have special instincts that tell them how to behave around other sentient beings.
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Run for your lives-the computers are invading. Awesomely powerful computers tackling ever more important tasks with awkward, old-fashioned interfaces.
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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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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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Define what the product will do before you design how the product will do it.
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If we want users to like our software we should design it to behave like a likeable person: respectful, generous and helpful.
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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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