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Alan Cooper is called 'The Father of Visual Basic' for his invention of the visual programming interface that became the popular Microsoft product. He is the author of About Face: The Essentials of User Interface Design, published by IDG Books. Cooper's other credits include Computer Associates' SuperProject, and MicroPhone II for Windows. Cooper is a Director of both the Association for Software Design and the Software Forum. He now owns Cooper Software, Inc. with the unique philosophy of Goal-Directed Design, helping companies to design usable software.
In his landmark book, About Face: The Essentials of User
Interface Design, Cooper questions some of the fundamental
parts of the traditional windowed desktop environment. The
book's lighthearted text makes reading it easily accessible,
while it offers sound user interface advice such as, "Don't
make the user look stupid."
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