If we want users to like our software we should design it to behave like a likeable person: respectful, generous and helpful.
ALAN COOPERI’m an ‘evolve or die’ kind of a musician. I think it’s cool to try new things.
More Alan Cooper Quotes
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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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Ironically, the thing that will likely make the least improvement in the ease of use of software-based products is new technology.
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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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In other words, humans have special instincts that tell them how to behave around other sentient beings.
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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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I’m an ‘evolve or die’ kind of a musician. I think it’s cool to try new things.
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While making art you should just do what is in your heart.
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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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We don’t fight about music. We don’t fight about artistic direction.
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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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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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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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It has been said that the great scientific disciplines are examples of giants standing on the shoulders of other giants.
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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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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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