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	Alan Cooper - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alan_Cooper (146 words)

	Designer, Programmer, Thought Leader, Rebel: Alan Cooper to Keynote COFES 2006
		Alan Cooper, the father of Visual Basic, best-selling author, and voice for radical change in software design, will headline COFES 2006 as keynote speaker.
		Cooper is co-inventor of the idea of personas as a software design tool, in which the work habits and requirements of a specific real person are mirrored in the user interface.
		Cooper is head of the eponymous consulting firm Cooper, which helps companies streamline development and build customer loyalty through design.
	aecnews.com /news/2006/02/13/1396.aspx (484 words)

	Experience - Alan J. Cooper P.A., Attorney at Law - Jupiter, Palm Beach County, Florida (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Cooper has and will continue to attend numerous legal seminars and workshops to keep abreast of the ever changing trends in the law.
		Cooper is admitted to practice in both New York State and Florida, and as such is admitted to all courts in those states.
		Cooper was married to the former Yvonne Carlson in 1970, has four adult children, and currently resides in Jupiter, Florida.
	www.jupiterattorney.com /experience.html (215 words)

	SAP Design Guild -- Cooper Interaction Design Enjoys SAP
		Founded in 1992 by Alan Cooper (the "father of Visual Basic"), Cooper Interaction Design is dedicated to helping companies define their business strategies, create new digital products, services, and appliances, or refine existing products, services, and appliances.
		Cooper has contributed their web design and strategy expertise to the initiative as a whole, as well as focusing on specific web applications dealing with business-to-business transactions, internal service requests, and vehicle inventory tracking and locating for the automotive industry.
		Cooper's philosophy is simple: create product strategies, digital products, appliances, and services that meet the goals of the people who will use them.
	www.sapdesignguild.org /editions/philosophy_articles/print_cooper.asp (1533 words)

	Alan Cooper of Cooper Interaction Design sees planning as key to downstream dividends
		ALAN COOPER, KNOWN as the "Father of Visual Basic" and the author of The Inmates are Running the Asylum, is one of the keynote speakers at the InfoWorld CTO Forum this week in San Francisco.
		Cooper: We model the user, and we can tell you what features and facilities and behavior this product is going to need in order to be desired by your users.
		Cooper: The top technology issue is that the process by which we determine what products we're going to build is very lopsided.
	www.infoworld.com /articles/hn/xml/01/06/15/010615hncooper.html (2027 words)

	Why Alan Cooper sold us out (Straight Face 09-15-2000)
		But, I knew that Alan was one of the most business-savvy people in all of HCI-dom (take a glance at Jakob Nielsen’s consulting rates to see another one), so I figured there must have been a master plan in there somewhere.
		Alan correctly pointed out that no one else in the company understands programmers enough to construct good arguments and provide the right type of input to satisfy their stringent requirements for specificity, thoroughness and edge-case handling.
		Alan Cooper didn’t cause this sudden awareness in the importance of interaction design and interdisciplinary cooperation all by himself, but there’s no question he had a huge part in it (starting as far back as the publishing of his previous book “About Face” in 1995).
	www.futuristic.com /futuristic/straightface/09152000.htm (665 words)

	Amazon.ca: Inmates Are Running the Asylum, The: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Cooper's writing style is often overblown, with a pantheon of cutesy terminology (i.e., "dancing bearware") and insider back-patting.
		Cooper's take on it, which I agree with, is that it has become not only advisable to move on from the obsolete programming culture we have relied on in the past.
		Cooper promotes - not due to inattention, but due to the fact that in many cases were everyone agreed improvement was needed, the mutual animosity between the HIE department and the Development department was so great that the decision ended in a stalemate and nothing was done.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0672316498 (1542 words)

	UPA 2001 Keynote Address (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The UPA 2001 conference keynote speaker will be interaction-design dynamo Alan Cooper, author of "The Inmates Are Running the Asylum," (1999) and "About Face" (1995), both classics of the user-interface design literature.
		Alan's passion for humanizing technology and his experience as an inventor and software programmer provide the vision and focus for Cooper's wide range of GOAL-DIRECTED® services.
		Cooper is active in several professional groups, including the Corporate Design Foundation, the Industrial Design Society of America, and the American Center for Design.
	www.upassoc.org /conferences_and_events/upa_conference/2001/reg/program/keynote.html (279 words)

	Sha Na Na - Rockabilly Central
		But a veteran of Woodstock he is. Alan Cooper, a distinguished professor of biblical studies at the Jewish Theological Seminary, was once on the Woodstock stage singing "At the Hop" as a lead singer with Sha Na Na.
		Cooper has never told any of his students, yet from Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati, where he used to teach, to the seminary here they all seem to know of his brief career on stage.
		Cooper today is a professor of biblical studies at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York.
	www.rockabilly.net /articles/shanana.shtml (650 words)

	Cyon Research Announces Alan Cooper to Keynote COFES 2006 - Innovate Forum
		Alan Cooper's leading consulting firm, Cooper (www.cooper.com), helps companies streamline development and build customer loyalty through design.
		Cooper provides user research, product definition, and product design services to a wide variety of clients, from high-tech leaders like HP and Microsoft to such well-known brands as Charles Schwab, Sony, and NBC.
		Cooper helps many of its clients build their own design capabilities through process and organizational consulting as well as training in its unique methods.
	innovateforum.com /innovate/article/articleDetail.jsp?id=307466&ref=25 (351 words)

	Software Doesn't Have to Crash
		According to Alan Cooper, the problem with software is not the way it works but the way the industry that makes it works.
		Cooper's approach to design is winning lots of converts, including clients such as Sun Microsystems, Coca-Cola, Compaq, and Dow Jones.
		Cooper's preliminary research identified three main user groups for a nuclear MRI: scientists who devise methodologies for using the instrument, researchers who use it to develop experiments, and technicians who use it to perform those experiments.
	www.fastcompany.com /online/22/nocrash.html (818 words)

	Alan Bruce Cooper (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Alan Bruce Cooper, M.D. Alan Bruce Cooper, M.D. died of lung cancer on December 29, 2002.
		Alan was a Life Fellow of the American Psychoanalytic Association and was elected a Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association.
		Alan is survived by his wife, Donna; children, Nanette Cooper-McGuinness, Robin Cooper Feldman, Shellie Cooper Campbell, Dana Cooper, and Charles Cooper; and six grandchildren.
	www.feldmans.org /ABC.html (537 words)

	ERCB: About Face
		This is due partly to his talents as a writer and speaker, partly to his somewhat murky reputation as the "Father of Visual Basic," and partly to the widespread perception that he beat Microsoft at their own game, then cashed in and walked away without a scratch.
		His comments on sovereign as opposed to transient programs, the evolving role of menus in the era of toolbars, nested and tabbed dialogs, drag-and-drop, and the tendency of most commercial applications to "go stupid" without warning for unpredictable lengths of time were interesting and thought-provoking.
		Certainly Cooper's perspective comes across in the book as quite parochial, and he passes up many opportunities to compare and contrast Windows features with their (often superior) counterparts in other systems.
	www.ercb.com /feature/feature.0005.html (1836 words)

	Alan Cooper (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Desk research and focus groups were great but Alan plumped for the more fulfilling role of running the Agency’s in-house video company.
		Alan is responsible for overall strategic development of the business, technology futures and specifying the coffee.
		Alan is passionate about delivering digital solutions in a human fashion – without jargon or technical obstacles.
	www.fsnm.co.uk /main/cms/cmRender.asp?i=27 (199 words)

	Prof Alan Cooper (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Barnett R, Phillips MJ, Martin LD, Harington CR, Leonard JA, Cooper A., Evolution of the extinct sabre-tooths and the American cheetahlike cat.
		Ho SYW, Phillips MJ, Cooper A, Drummond AJ., (2005) Time dependency of molecular rate estimates and systematic overestimation of recent divergence times.
		Gilbert MTP, Willerslev E, Hansen A, Barnes I, Rudbeck L, Lynnerup N, Cooper A., Characterisation of genetic miscoding lesions caused by post-mortem damage.
	www.ees.adelaide.edu.au /people/enviro/acooper01.htm (775 words)

	Scobleizer - Microsoft Geek Blogger » Morning with Alan Cooper
		I’m sitting with Alan Cooper, chairman of the board of Cooper (a company that humanizes technology, he says).
		He just gave a talk at the PNP Summit (there are two more PNP Summits coming up) about how to avoid “death-march software.” I wasn’t able to record his talk, but recorded most of the conversation that happened afterward.
		Cooper would support outright as the quote above (taken solely on its own (caveats understood)) would be the other end of the spectrum.
	scobleizer.wordpress.com /2005/12/13/morning-with-alan-cooper (924 words)

	Alan Cooper
		Alan Cooper agreed this weekend to keynote the upcoming patterns and practices Summit in
		So Alan's going down the huge escalator into the "bunker" conference area at the Marriott...he sees me on the other side going up and hollers "what the hell do you know about UI design?" I yell back "about as much as you know about developing software!".
		One of the answers was "The father of VB", and you can imagine the audience’s consternation when the question “who is Alan Cooper?” was deemed WRONG by Microsoft, who insisted it was a guy named Len Oorthies (spelling?) who was the original PM.
	weblogs.asp.net /kpleas/archive/2005/02/21/377512.aspx (472 words)

	Amazon.com: The Inmates Are Running the Asylum : Why High Tech Products Drive Us Crazy and How to Restore the Sanity ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		He goes on to say that this is more often than not the fault of poorly designed user interfaces, and he makes a good argument that way too many devices (perhaps as a result of the designers' subconscious wish to bully the people who tormented them as children) ask too much of their users.
		Alan Cooper is well spoken, well written, and he has the knowledge, the innovation, and the experience to enlighten and entertain.
		Alan Cooper (father of Visual Basic) presents for us a litany of horrific examples of interface design, and lays out the case for why spending time and money up front on usability and interaction design will produce the greatest returns of all the steps in software development.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0672326140?v=glance (1825 words)

	PCD 2/13/98 Cooper
		Alan Cooper, the "Father of Visual Basic" and author of About Face: The Essentials of User Interface Design, sees a cure for this craziness in a new way to design interaction.
		Alan Cooper believes that software should deliver power and pleasure to its users, but rarely does either.
		Alan serves on the advisory board of the Software Forum and was the founder of SEF's Windows SIG, the largest Windows developers group in the world.
	hci.stanford.edu /cs547/abstracts/97-98/980213-cooper.html (350 words)

	Alan Cooper to Keynote at UPA 2001 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Cooper, known as "the father of Visual Basic," writes from the perspective of a software programmer turned customer-centered product designer.
		Cooper's passion for humanizing technology has earned him numerous accolades and industry awards, including a Software Visionary Award in 1998.
		Cooper is in demand as a speaker on customer-centered issues and is also active in several professional groups, including the Corporate Design Foundation, the Industrial Design Society of America, and the American Center for Design.
	www.upassoc.org /upa_publications/upa_voice/volumes/3/issue_1/keynoter.htm (168 words)

	Alan Cooper Speaks! Impressions from BayCHI April 2002 - Boxes and Arrows: The design behind the design
		This month we were treated to a one-two punch from Cooper’s man at the helm, Alan Cooper, and their Director of Design Research and Development, Robert Reimann.
		Alan said that software engineers and their managers simply didn’t understand the affect they had on the people who use the results of their work.
		Alan’s contention is that the position should be held by someone at the “C” level (as in CEO or CFO).
	www.boxesandarrows.com /view/alan_cooper_speaks_impressions_from_baychi_april_2002 (3641 words)

	Alan Cooper
		Alan Cooper, who wrote what became Microsoft's Visual Basic, will speak in Portland about designing quality software user interfaces on Thursday, November 13th.
		For instance, he proposes that users neither be burdened with the organization of the file system, nor know that files are being saved at all.
		Cooper now owns Cooper Software, Inc. with the unique philosophy of Goal-Directed Design, helping companies to design usable software.
	www.chifoo.org /pages/programs/1998/cooper.html (230 words)

	Alan Cooper : Part 1 Defining Interaction : uidesign.net
		In part 1, Alan takes his time to explain exactly what he means by Interaction Design and why it isn't Interface Design and exactly what role Interaction Design plays in the whole gambit of User Centered Design disciplines.
		It became difficult to slide in the questions as Cooper began to tear up the rulebook for the technology industry and throw it out.
		One of the significant secrets of Cooper Interaction is our willingness to have skin in the game.
	www.uidesign.net /2000/interviews/cooper1.html (3000 words)

	UTS: Alan Cooper (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Alan Mitchell Cooper, received an A.B. in 1971 from Columbia College, and a Ph.D. in 1976 from Yale University.
		His teaching and research interests are centered on the relationship between poetics and historical criticism, and the history of biblical interpretation.
		Cooper's dual appointment in Hebrew Bible at Union and The Jewish Theological Seminary of America (JTS) signals a major step in strengthening important historical ties between these two neighbors.
	www.uts.columbia.edu /index.php?id=316 (88 words)

	Notes from Alan Cooper presentation at UW in Seattle on Oct 27 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The last presentation that I heard from Cooper was called “7 Management Insights,“ so this presentation continued on Cooper's trend of blending business/strategy with interaction design/software projects.
		The “death march“ idea came about because Cooper should show up at client sites, present the company with great design guidelines, and then see clients NOT implement what he suggested (or implement it in a way that the project was really late, really overbudget, and so on).
		Cooper seems to highly encourage execs to stick with their “I review the Balance Sheet, EPS figures, Cash Flow Statement, and Income Statement” daily tasks, but he also wants them to think of Goal-Directed design when it comes time to Strategy decisions.
	loudcarrot.com /Blogs/heidi/archive/2005/10/29/5413.aspx (1583 words)

	Make Your Own Bozo Filter
		Alan Cooper, president of cooper Software Inc. in Palo Alto, California, spends lots of time evaluating talent.
		Unlike Robert Nideffer's TAIS diagnostic, Cooper's test is specific to his company's business -- designing user interfaces for companies such as Microsoft, Oracle, and Prodigy.
		Cooper points job candidates to the Web site and asks them to complete the test.
	www.fastcompany.com /magazine/11/bozo.html (341 words)

	Alibris: Alan Cooper (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Here readers meet Will Stanton, the seventh son of a seventh son, who, on his 11th birthday, discovers that he is an Old One, a group of immortals charged with saving the world from the evil forces known as the Dark....
		The "father" of Visual Basic, Cooper, presents a methodology of user interface design that he has distilled from many years of creating award-winning personal computer software.
		Alan Cooper writes about an operation that captured the imagination of the world -- the attack on the German dams in May 1943.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Alan_Cooper (899 words)

	alan cooper ... at MSN Shopping (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Luckily, a Poindexter science major named Arnold is desperate to lose his virginity to Sylvia, so the guys trade her sexual favors for his complicity in an elaborate scam.
		Foundations are eager to fund the professor's work with generous grants, and since Heigner signs anything Arnold hands him without question, the seniors draft their own letter of request for cash and claim to be studying the sexual habits of college-age girls.
		After hearing that Cooper and his band are on tour, Travis sets out to catch up to them and offer his services.
	shopping.msn.com /results/shp/?text=alan+cooper+... (1931 words)

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