One of the most heinous, insidious lies is the notion that you have to be an asshole to be a successful business person.
ALAN COOPERThere’s only one thing you can use against pure logic, and that’s common sense.
More Alan Cooper Quotes
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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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Typography should not vary widely in an interface.
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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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The things like that we could fight about, we really don’t. We are pretty lucky for that.
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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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Usability methods are like sandpapering a chair.
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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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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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Past dreams of bliss our lives contain, And slight the chords that still retain A heart estranged to joys again,
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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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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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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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Define what the product will do before you design how the product will do it.
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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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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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