Run for your lives-the computers are invading. Awesomely powerful computers tackling ever more important tasks with awkward, old-fashioned interfaces.
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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I’m a huge believer in putting music out as quickly as early as possible.
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Just how do I design if not with prototyping? An excellent question. The short answer is ‘on paper.’
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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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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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Typography should not vary widely in an interface.
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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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English bohemians sit in cold orderly rows, like carrots.
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A powerful tool in the early stages of developing scenarios is to pretend the interface is magic.
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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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I’m an ‘evolve or die’ kind of a musician. I think it’s cool to try new things.
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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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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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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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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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Past dreams of bliss our lives contain, And slight the chords that still retain A heart estranged to joys again,
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