If we want users to like our software we should design it to behave like a likeable person: respectful, generous and helpful.
ALAN COOPERWe don’t fight about music. We don’t fight about artistic direction.
More Alan Cooper Quotes
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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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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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Define what the product will do before you design how the product will do it.
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As these machines leak into every corner of our lives, they will annoy us, infuriate us, and even kill a few of us.
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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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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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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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In other words, humans have special instincts that tell them how to behave around other sentient beings.
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One of the most heinous, insidious lies is the notion that you have to be an asshole to be a successful business person.
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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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Usability methods are like sandpapering a chair.
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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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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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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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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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