Biography
Alan Cooper is an software designer and programmer. Widely recognized as the “Father of Visual Basic.” In addition, Cooper is known for his books About Face: The Essentials of Interaction Design and The Inmates Are Running the Asylum: Why High-Tech Products Drive Us Crazy and How to Restore the Sanity. As founder of Cooper, a leading interaction design consultancy, he created the Goal-Directed design methodology and pioneered the use of personas as practical interaction design tools to create high-tech products.
Alan Cooper was our closing keynote speaker at BigDesign 2017.