Alan Cooper
Alan Cooper (born June 3, 1952) is an American
software designer and
programmer. Widely recognized as the "Father of
Visual Basic", 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."
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