Quotes About Alan Cooper

The obnoxious behavior and obscure interaction that software-based products exhibit is institutionalizing what I call software apartheid:

We can create powerful and pleasurable software-based products by the simple expedient of designing our computer-based products before we build them.

programmers believe that their own imperatives of construction simplicity and ease of acquisition—of prewritten source code in their case—take precedence over any suggestions made by others.