Well madam, have you looked in the mirror and seen the state of your nose? Boxing is my excuse. What’s yours?
ALAN COOPERIf you are not going to produce albums then you are not going to produce new fans. It’s impossible.
More Alan Cooper Quotes
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Usability methods are like sandpapering a chair.
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My computer’s memory stores a million phone numbers with perfect accuracy, but I have to stop and think to recall my own.
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Define what the product will do before you design how the product will do it.
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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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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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I’m an ‘evolve or die’ kind of a musician. I think it’s cool to try new things.
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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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There is little difference technically between a complicated, confusing program and a simple, fun, and powerful product.
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Typography should not vary widely in an interface.
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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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There’s only one thing you can use against pure logic, and that’s common sense.
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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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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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One of the most heinous, insidious lies is the notion that you have to be an asshole to be a successful business person.
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Design principle: Take things away until the design breaks, then put that last thing back in.
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