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.
ALAN COOPERKeep 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.
More Alan Cooper Quotes
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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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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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While making art you should just do what is in your heart.
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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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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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Typography should not vary widely in an interface.
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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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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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There’s only one thing you can use against pure logic, and that’s common sense.
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We don’t fight about music. We don’t fight about artistic direction.
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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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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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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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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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Usability methods are like sandpapering a chair.
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