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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”.

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
Alan Cooper

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

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

Alan Cooper
Alan Cooper

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

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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
Alan Cooper

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

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

Alan Cooper
Alan Cooper

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

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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.

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Alan Cooper

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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.

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Alan Cooper

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

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Alan Cooper – Design products in such a way that people who use them achieve their goals

Product designed to achieve business goals alone is not enough!

The way people do things today is often merely the product of the obsolete systems and organizations they are forced to interact with, and typically bear little resemblance to the way they would like to do things or the way they would be most effective.

Source: About Face 3: The Essentials of Interaction Design (Book) by Alan Cooper

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