"No matter how beautiful, no matter how cool……" — Alan Cooper
"No matter how beautiful, no matter how cool your interface, it would be better if there were less of it."
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13 Quotes by Alan Cooper
Alan Cooper has 13 quotes on this site.
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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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Well madam, have you looked in the mirror and seen the state of your nose? Boxing is my excuse. What's…
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If we want users to like our software we should design it to behave like a likeable person: respectful, generous…
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Because computers have memories, we imagine that they must be something like our human memories, but that is simply not…
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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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Ironically, the thing that will likely make the least improvement in the ease of use of software-based products is new…
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Men do not greet one another like this ... except perhaps at rugby club dinners.
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Keep it simple: In general, interfaces should use simple geometric forms, minimal contours, and a restricted color palette comprised primarily…
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Design principle: Take things away until the design breaks, then put that last thing back in.
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To our human minds, computers behave less like rocks and trees than they do like humans, so we unconsciously treat…
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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. As…
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One of the most heinous, insidious lies is the notion that you have to be an asshole to be a…
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By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality.
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I believe more in precision, when you have the capability, like when you see a mosquito fly and you're able…
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Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.
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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
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People must feel that the natural world is important and valuable and beautiful and wonderful and an amazement and a…
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But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed…
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The worse my drawings were, the more beautiful did the originals appear.
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I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in…
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Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of…
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Changing your mind is probably one of the most beautiful things people can do. And I've changed my mind about…
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Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
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It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.
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