Define what the product will do before you design how the product will do it.
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More Alan Cooper Quotes
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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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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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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 not going to produce albums then you are not going to produce new fans. It’s impossible.
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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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English bohemians sit in cold orderly rows, like carrots.
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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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Form follows function straight to hell.
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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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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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The things like that we could fight about, we really don’t. We are pretty lucky for that.
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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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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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While making art you should just do what is in your heart.
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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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