Alan Cooper
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Alan Cooper
@MrAlanCooper
@[email protected] Trying to be a Good Ancestor. Founder of @Cooper, 'Father of Visual Basic,' inventor of design personas, blowhard curmudgeon
- Horrible scene from War on Christmas internment camp at secret location in Midwest.
- You know, I’ve been in the software development business for more than 40 years now, and there is one thing that I know for a solid fact: Nobody knows how to build software. Yes, sometimes it gets built, but it’s a random, unrepeatable event. A lucky accident.
- The entire tech world is gonna be gobsmacked when they finally realize the solution is to take more time and think about people more.
- It’s called “cannabis.” That’s the name to use. “Marijuana” is Mexican slang propagated years ago by a racist Fed Bureau of Narcotics in a (successful) effort to stigmatize both Mexicans and cannabis. Call it by its name.
- When I started programming, it was a solo skill, performed by individuals, with little or no sharing and virtually no collaboration. A culture was built around those facts. 1
- The main reason why agile methods are popular is because managers think it means doing things faster. 1
- Give a man a Tweet & you entertain him for a moment, but teach a man to Tweet & you will destroy his productivity for the rest of his life.
- Just because something is debated, it doesn’t mean that that thing is debatable.
- Horrible scene from War on Christmas internment camp at secret location in Midwest..
- Personas are discovered in the field, not invented in the lab. They have goals & motivations & a realistic name. ALWAYS use their name. Once you have one, never say “user” again. Have very few of them (3 MAX). Design by role-playing as the persona. Make the persona happy.
- We are not being taken over by robots. We are being taken over by the people who own the robots.
- If you love The Expanse TV series, you will swoon with respect and melt with joy when you read all nine of The Expanse novels.
- We have thousands of incredibly shitty programs and apps that were shipped on time. Deadlines don’t make things better.
