Alan Cooper

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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.

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.

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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)