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.
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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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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I’m a huge believer in putting music out as quickly as early as possible.
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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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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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Typography should not vary widely in an interface.
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I’m an ‘evolve or die’ kind of a musician. I think it’s cool to try new things.
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Usability methods are like sandpapering a chair.
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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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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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If you are not going to produce albums then you are not going to produce new fans. It’s impossible.
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While making art you should just do what is in your heart.
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We don’t fight about music. We don’t fight about artistic direction.
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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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Form follows function straight to hell.
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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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