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Alan Cooper

An American software designer and programmer. Widely recognized as the “Father of Visual Basic”.

Alan Cooper

An American software designer and programmer. Widely recognized as the “Father of Visual Basic”.

Products designed and built to achieve business goals alone will eventually fail; personal goals of users need to be addressed.

Alan Cooper

An American software designer and programmer. Widely recognized as the “Father of Visual Basic".

Design & Arts
Design Thinking
Industrial Design
Product Development

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Learn more Computer literacy is really an euphemism for forcing human beings to stretch their thinking to understand the inner workings of application logic, rather than having software-enabled products stretch to meet people’s usual ways of thinking.

Alan Cooper

An American software designer and programmer. Widely recognized as the “Father of Visual Basic".

Design & Arts
Usability

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Learn more Public kiosks run an unfortunate risk of being a disease vector, so your first pass should try for noncontact inputs like voice, proximity switches, or non-contact gestural inputs.

Alan Cooper

An American software designer and programmer. Widely recognized as the “Father of Visual Basic".

Design & Arts
Tips & Advice
Usability
UX Design
UX Elements

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If we design and construct products in such a way that the people who use them achieve their goals, these people will be satisfied, effective, and happy and will gladly pay for the products and recommend that others do the same.

Alan Cooper

An American software designer and programmer. Widely recognized as the “Father of Visual Basic".

Design & Arts
Design Thinking
Industrial Design
Product Development

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Learn more Infinite scrolling should never be employed for interfaces in which users need to get to the end of the list quickly, or need to return to a particular list item after navigating elsewhere.

Alan Cooper

An American software designer and programmer. Widely recognized as the “Father of Visual Basic".

Design & Arts
Tips & Advice
Usability
UX Design
UX Elements

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One of the eternal conundrums of interaction and interface design is how to address the needs of both beginning users and expert users with a single, coherent interface.

Alan Cooper

An American software designer and programmer. Widely recognized as the “Father of Visual Basic".

Design & Arts
UX Design
Design Thinking
IxD
UI Design

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Learn more Usability’s strength is in identifying problems, while design’s strength is in identifying solutions.

Alan Cooper

An American software designer and programmer. Widely recognized as the “Father of Visual Basic".

Design & Arts
Seeking Solutions
Usability

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