Typography should not vary widely in an interface.
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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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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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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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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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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You can get spiritual things out of books and stories and they have nothing to do with religion.
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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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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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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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No matter how beautiful, no matter how cool your interface, it would be better if there were less of it.
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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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I’m an ‘evolve or die’ kind of a musician. I think it’s cool to try new things.
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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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If you are not going to produce albums then you are not going to produce new fans. It’s impossible.
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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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