Define what the product will do before you design how the product will do it.
ALAN COOPERI’m a huge believer in putting music out as quickly as early as possible.
More Alan Cooper Quotes
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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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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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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 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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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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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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It has been said that the great scientific disciplines are examples of giants standing on the shoulders of other giants.
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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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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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Men do not greet one another like this … except perhaps at rugby club dinners.
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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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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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You Don’t Have to Go Home from Work Exhausted!
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Form follows function straight to hell.
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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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