No matter how beautiful, no matter how cool your interface, it would be better if there were less of it.
ALAN COOPERMy computer’s memory stores a million phone numbers with perfect accuracy, but I have to stop and think to recall my own.
More Alan Cooper Quotes
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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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While making art you should just do what is in your heart.
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We seem to be keeping old fans and are bringing on new fans that are teenagers. I think that is amazing.
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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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A powerful tool in the early stages of developing scenarios is to pretend the interface is magic.
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English bohemians sit in cold orderly rows, like carrots.
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If your persona has goals and the product has magical powers to meet them, how simple could the interaction be? This kind of thinking is useful to help designers look outside the box.
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Men do not greet one another like this … except perhaps at rugby club dinners.
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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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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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We don’t fight about music. We don’t fight about artistic direction.
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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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I’m a huge believer in putting music out as quickly as early as possible.
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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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Usability methods are like sandpapering a chair.
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