- Alan Cooper
Alan Cooper, an advocate of
interaction design , runs a design company and writes books about how to make softwareuser interface s more usable.Cooper is sometimes called "the father of
Visual Basic ", although much of work on Visual Basic was done byMicrosoft 's internal development group. Cooper was the leading force behind VB 1.0 and pioneered the use of an IDE to create a GUI via wrapped calls to system routines in the API (seeAdapter pattern ).Cooper's original programs were called "Tripod" and later "Ruby". They were intended as more of an end-user tool, but development at Microsoft led to Visual Basic becoming a tool for programmers instead.
Bibliography
* "About Face: The Essentials of User Interface Design" (ISBN 1-56884-322-4)
* "The Inmates Are Running the Asylum: Why High-Tech Products Drive Us Crazy and How to Restore the Sanity" (ISBN 0-672-31649-8)
* "About Face 2.0: The Essentials of Interaction Design" (with Robert Reimann) (ISBN 0-7645-2641-3)
* "About Face 3: The Essentials of Interaction Design" (with Robert Reimann and David Cronin) (ISBN 0-4700-8411-1)ee also
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Design methods
*Design thinking
*Interaction design
*User centered design
*User experience design External links
* [http://www.cooper.com/ Cooper Consulting]
* [http://msdn.microsoft.com/seminar/shared/asp/view.asp?url=/dotnetrocks/en/20030127alanc/manifest.xml&WMPVer=10.0.0.3646 Alan Cooper Interview on .NET Rocks Radio]
* [http://channel9.msdn.com/Showpost.aspx?postid=171658 Conversation with Alan Cooper] at Channel 9
* Alan Cooper on Ruby and why he was called " [http://www.cooper.com/alan/father_of_vb.html the Father of Visual Basic] "
* [http://www.stockexchangeofvisions.org/speaker.php?id=29 SEOV: Visions of Alan Cooper (Video Interviews)]
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