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 …

- Alan Cooper

Usability methods are like sandpapering a chair. If you are making a chair, the sandpaper can make it smoother. But no amount of sandpaper will turn …

- Alan Cooper

Computers no longer interface with humans--they interact, and the interaction will become steadily deeper, more subtle, and more crucial to our colle…

- Alan Cooper

Because computers have memories, we imagine that they must be something like our human memories, but that is simply not true. Computer memories work …

- Alan Cooper

Run for your lives-the computers are invading. Awesomely powerful computers tackling ever more important tasks with awkward, old-fashioned interfaces…

- Alan Cooper

There's only one thing you can use against pure logic, and that's common sense.

- Alan Cooper

No matter how beautiful, no matter how cool your interface, it would be better if there were less of it.

- Alan Cooper

Design principle: Take things away until the design breaks, then put that last thing back in.

- Alan Cooper

Ironically, the thing that will likely make the least improvement in the ease of use of software-based products is new technology. There is little di…

- Alan Cooper