Alan Cooper
Alan Cooper is "the father of Visual Basic."
Not strictly true, since a lot of work was Microsoft's internal development group. However, the idea of a visual design tool for windows and widgets is Cooper's.
Cooper, an advocate of interaction design, runs a design company and writes books about how to make software user-interfaces easier to use by the application of usability principles and techniques.
Books by Alan Cooper:
- About Face: The Essentials of User Interface Design (ISBN 1568843224)
- The Inmates Are Running the Asylum: Why High-Tech Products Drive Us Crazy and How to Restore the Sanity (ISBN 0672316498)
- About Face 2.0: The Essentials of Interaction Design (with Robert Reimann) (ISBN 0764526413)
