Ironically, the thing that will likely make the least improvement in the ease of use of software-based products is new technology.
ALAN COOPERWe seem to be keeping old fans and are bringing on new fans that are teenagers. I think that is amazing.
More Alan Cooper Quotes
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Typography should not vary widely in an interface.
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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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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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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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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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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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It has been said that the great scientific disciplines are examples of giants standing on the shoulders of other giants.
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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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There is little difference technically between a complicated, confusing program and a simple, fun, and powerful product.
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While making art you should just do what is in your heart.
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Define what the product will do before you design how the product will do it.
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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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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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I just like so many different kinds of music that I like experimenting. I don’t want to keep making the same record over and over and over.
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