Alan Cooper

   

Alan Cooper is "the father of Visual Basic."

Not strictly true, since a lot of work was Microsoft's internal development group. However, the idea of a visual design tool for windows and widgets is Cooper's.

Cooper, an advocate of interaction design, runs a design company and writes books about how to make software user-interfaces easier to use by the application of usability principles and techniques.

Books by Alan Cooper:

  • About Face: The Essentials of User Interface Design (ISBN 1568843224)
  • The Inmates Are Running the Asylum: Why High-Tech Products Drive Us Crazy and How to Restore the Sanity (ISBN 0672316498)
  • About Face 2.0: The Essentials of Interaction Design (with Robert Reimann) (ISBN 0764526413)

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