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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. To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... The user interface is the part of a system exposed to users. ... Usability is a term used to denote the ease with which people can employ a particular tool or other human-made object in order to achieve a particular goal. ...


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 and not to Xerox Parc, developer of Graphical User Interfaces [citation needed]. 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. Visual Basic (VB) is an event driven programming language and associated development environment from Microsoft. ... The Microsoft Corporation, (NASDAQ: MSFT, HKSE: 4338) is a multinational computer technology corporation with global annual revenue of US$44. ...


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)

External links

  • Cooper Consulting
  • Alan Cooper Interview on .NET Rocks Radio
  • Conversation with Alan Cooper at Channel9
  • Alan Cooper on Ruby and why he was called "the Father of Visual Basic"
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Alan Cooper - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (146 words)
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.
Designer, Programmer, Thought Leader, Rebel: Alan Cooper to Keynote COFES 2006 (484 words)
Alan Cooper, the father of Visual Basic, best-selling author, and voice for radical change in software design, will headline COFES 2006 as keynote speaker.
Cooper is co-inventor of the idea of personas as a software design tool, in which the work habits and requirements of a specific real person are mirrored in the user interface.
Cooper is head of the eponymous consulting firm Cooper, which helps companies streamline development and build customer loyalty through design.
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