Alan Cooper
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Alan Cooper, an advocate of interaction design, runs a design company and writes books about how to make software user interfaces more usable.
Cooper is sometimes called "the father of Visual Basic". That is not strictly true, since a lot of work on Visual Basic was done by Microsoft's internal development group. However, the idea of a visual design tool for windows and widgets belongs to Cooper.
Bibliography
- 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)
External links
- Cooper Consulting (http://www.cooper.com/)
- Alan Cooper Interview on .NET Rocks Radio (http://msdn.microsoft.com/seminar/shared/asp/view.asp?url=/dotnetrocks/en/20030127alanc/manifest.xml&WMPVer=10.0.0.3646)