Ironically, the thing that will likely make the least improvement in the ease of use of software-based products is new technology.
ALAN COOPERIt’s harder than you might think to squander millions of dollars, but a flawed software development process is a tool well suited to the job.
More Alan Cooper Quotes
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We don’t fight about music. We don’t fight about artistic direction.
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Design principle: Take things away until the design breaks, then put that last thing back in.
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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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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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English bohemians sit in cold orderly rows, like carrots.
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Keep 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.
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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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In other words, humans have special instincts that tell them how to behave around other sentient beings.
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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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Form follows function straight to hell.
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While making art you should just do what is in your heart.
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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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There is little difference technically between a complicated, confusing program and a simple, fun, and powerful product.
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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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Usability methods are like sandpapering a chair.
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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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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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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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There’s only one thing you can use against pure logic, and that’s common sense.
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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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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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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 you are not going to produce albums then you are not going to produce new fans. It’s impossible.
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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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Just how do I design if not with prototyping? An excellent question. The short answer is ‘on paper.’
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