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Alan Cooper
Cooper in September 2010
Born
(1952-06-03) June 3, 1952 (age 72)
San Francisco, California, USA
Known for
Visual Basic, user experience, interaction design, personas, Goal-Directed design, About Face, The Inmates Are Running The Asylum, VBX
Alan Cooper (born June 3, 1952) is an American software designer and programmer. Widely recognized as the "Father of Visual Basic",[1] Cooper is also known for his books About Face: The Essentials of Interaction Design and The Inmates Are Running the Asylum: Why High-Tech Products Drive Us Crazy and How to Restore the Sanity. As founder of Cooper, a leading interaction design consultancy, he created the Goal-Directed design methodology and pioneered the use of personas as practical interaction design tools to create high-tech products. On April 28, 2017, Alan was inducted into the Computer History Museum's Hall of Fellows "for his invention of the visual development environment in Visual BASIC, and for his pioneering work in establishing the field of interaction design and its fundamental tools."[2][3][4]
^Waite, Mitchell (1992). The Waite Group's Visual Basic How-To. Waite Group Press. ISBN 1-878739-09-3, ISBN 978-1-878739-09-4, pp. dedication page
^"2017 CHM Fellow Alan Cooper: Father of Visual Basic - Computer History Museum". www.computerhistory.org. 11 April 2017.
^"Alan Cooper - Computer History Museum". www.computerhistory.org. 18 April 2024.
^Computer History Museum (17 May 2017). "2017 Fellow Awards Highlights" – via YouTube.
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