There’s only one thing you can use against pure logic, and that’s common sense.
ALAN COOPERA powerful tool in the early stages of developing scenarios is to pretend the interface is magic.
More Alan Cooper Quotes
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I’m an ‘evolve or die’ kind of a musician. I think it’s cool to try new things.
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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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Just how do I design if not with prototyping? An excellent question. The short answer is ‘on paper.’
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Typography should not vary widely in an interface.
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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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You can get spiritual things out of books and stories and they have nothing to do with religion.
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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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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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You Don’t Have to Go Home from Work Exhausted!
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I’m a huge believer in putting music out as quickly as early as possible.
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Men do not greet one another like this … except perhaps at rugby club dinners.
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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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No matter how beautiful, no matter how cool your interface, it would be better if there were less of it.
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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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Define what the product will do before you design how the product will do it.
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