Alan Cooper

ThinkersBorn 1952Software designer

Works

  • The Inmates Are Running the Asylum, Sams, 1999

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Known for

A software designer, often called the father of Visual Basic, who introduced personas to interaction design: specific archetypal users, built from interviews with real ones, for whom a product is designed. He began using them in 1983, and this book made the method widely known.

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