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.

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)

External links

• Cooper Consulting

• Alan Cooper Interview on .NET Rocks Radio