My computer’s memory stores a million phone numbers with perfect accuracy, but I have to stop and think to recall my own.
ALAN COOPERForm follows function straight to hell.
More Alan Cooper Quotes
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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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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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Usability methods are like sandpapering a chair.
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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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I’m a huge believer in putting music out as quickly as early as possible.
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Computer memories work in a manner alien to human memories. My memory lets me recognize the faces of my friends, whereas my own computer never even recognizes me.
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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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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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Ironically, the thing that will likely make the least improvement in the ease of use of software-based products is new technology.
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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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Typography should not vary widely in an interface.
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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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If you are not going to produce albums then you are not going to produce new fans. It’s impossible.
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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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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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