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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The things like that we could fight about, we really don’t. We are pretty lucky for that.
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Form follows function straight to hell.
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Men do not greet one another like this … except perhaps at rugby club dinners.
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It has been said that the great scientific disciplines are examples of giants standing on the shoulders of other giants.
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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 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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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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Past dreams of bliss our lives contain, And slight the chords that still retain A heart estranged to joys again,
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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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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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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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While making art you should just do what is in your heart.
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Well madam, have you looked in the mirror and seen the state of your nose? Boxing is my excuse. What’s yours?
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Usability methods are like sandpapering a chair.
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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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