No matter how beautiful, no matter how cool your interface, it would be better if there were less of it.
ALAN COOPERForm follows function straight to hell.
More Alan Cooper Quotes
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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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There is little difference technically between a complicated, confusing program and a simple, fun, and powerful product.
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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 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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While making art you should just do what is in your heart.
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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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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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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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Usability methods are like sandpapering a chair.
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Typography should not vary widely in an interface.
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We don’t fight about music. We don’t fight about artistic direction.
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When I was a teenager, that was when I fell in love with music. It affected me in a deep way. That’s why I love having teenagers at our shows.
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Design principle: Take things away until the design breaks, then put that last thing back in.
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You Don’t Have to Go Home from Work Exhausted!
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Well madam, have you looked in the mirror and seen the state of your nose? Boxing is my excuse. What’s yours?
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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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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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Past dreams of bliss our lives contain, And slight the chords that still retain A heart estranged to joys again,
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A powerful tool in the early stages of developing scenarios is to pretend the interface is magic.
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Define what the product will do before you design how the product will do it.
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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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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 has been said that the great scientific disciplines are examples of giants standing on the shoulders of other giants.
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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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English bohemians sit in cold orderly rows, like carrots.
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Computers no longer interface with humans–they interact, and the interaction will become steadily deeper, more subtle, and more crucial to our collective sanity and ultimate survival.
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