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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More Alan Cooper Quotes
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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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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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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 you are not going to produce albums then you are not going to produce new fans. It’s impossible.
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You Don’t Have to Go Home from Work Exhausted!
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While making art you should just do what is in your heart.
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I just try and learn to be a good husband and be a good father before I am a good rock star. That means saying no to certain things that go with the business.
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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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In other words, humans have special instincts that tell them how to behave around other sentient beings.
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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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Define what the product will do before you design how the product will do it.
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Form follows function straight to hell.
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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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There is little difference technically between a complicated, confusing program and a simple, fun, and powerful product.
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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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