Birth Name:

Alan Cooper

Male

Birth Date:

Tue, Jun 03, 1952

Time of Birth:

Unknown (using Noon)

Place of Birth:

San Francisco, California, United States

Age:

72

Zodiac Sign:

Gemini

Astrology Data:

Sun

13°

Gem

7'

About 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."

Link to Wikipedia biography

External Links:

• Profile at Cooper.com

• Article, Alexa, please kill me now: My thoughts on conversational UI

• Agile 2008 interview, “Similarities Between Interaction Designers and Agile Programmers”

• Interview, UX Podcast, Ranch Stories with Alan Cooper

• Interview, Alan Cooper Interview on .NET Rocks

• Interview, Conversation with Alan Cooper at Microsoft's Channel 9

• Article, Alan Cooper on why he has been called "the Father of Visual Basic"

• Interview, SEOV: Visions of Alan Cooper (Video Interviews)

• Discussion, Alan Cooper on what companies must do to improve software products - mp3 format

• Article, Alan Cooper and the Goal Directed Design Process—Gain AIGA Journal of Design for the Network Economy, 2001

• Software Development Forum's Software Visionary Award

• Interview, Triangulation 262: Alan Cooper

• Article, "Tech Republic" The Church of Usability, Alan K'necht

• Article, Dr. Dobbs Special Report 1997 (re. Gary Kildall), Michael Swaine

• "History of CBASIC". Archived from the original on 2006-05-04. Retrieved 2006-05-04.

• Encyclopedia entry, Structured Systems Group (Britannica.com)

• Interview, Why People Yell at Their Computer Monitors and Hate Microsoft's Clippy

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Categories related to Alan Cooper: Living people, June 3 births, 1952 births, American computer programmers, Human–computer interaction researchers, Software engineers

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