Just how do I design if not with prototyping? An excellent question. The short answer is ‘on paper.’
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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You Don’t Have to Go Home from Work Exhausted!
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There’s only one thing you can use against pure logic, and that’s common sense.
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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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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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No matter how beautiful, no matter how cool your interface, it would be better if there were less of it.
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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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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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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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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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I’m an ‘evolve or die’ kind of a musician. I think it’s cool to try new things.
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While making art you should just do what is in your heart.
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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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I just try and learn to be a good husband and be a good father before I am a good rock star. That means saying no to certain things that go with the business.
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You can get spiritual things out of books and stories and they have nothing to do with religion.
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