There is little difference technically between a complicated, confusing program and a simple, fun, and powerful product.
ALAN COOPERWe don’t fight about music. We don’t fight about artistic direction.
More Alan Cooper Quotes
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Usability methods are like sandpapering a chair.
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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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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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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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No matter how beautiful, no matter how cool your interface, it would be better if there were less of it.
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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 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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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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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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We seem to be keeping old fans and are bringing on new fans that are teenagers. I think that is amazing.
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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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English bohemians sit in cold orderly rows, like carrots.
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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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There’s only one thing you can use against pure logic, and that’s common sense.
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Form follows function straight to hell.
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