Devnology podcast 031 - Alan Cooper

We were lucky to catch software legend Alan Cooper on his visit
to Amsterdam and talk with him at length about design and
programming. Alan tells about how he created products like the
first incarnation of Visual Basic, and we discuss some
fundamentals of interaction design. We also talk about how design
fits into the software development process.


Follow Alan via his twitter handle @MRAlanCooper and through
tumblr.


This interview was recorded on the 27th of april 2012 at the
rehearsal theater of Hettoneelspeelt in Amsterdam.


Interview by @freekl en @arnetim
Audio post-production by @mendelt
Links for this podcast:

Book: About Face - The Essentials of Interaction Design. Alan
Cooper, Robert Reimann & David Cronin, 3rd Edition 2007

Book: The Inmates Are Running the Asylum: Why High Tech
Products Drive Us Crazy and How to Restore the Sanity.Alan
Cooper, 2004

Alan's company website is at Cooper.com, offering services
and training in design and UX.

In this podcast we mention the works of Christopher Alexander
and his thoughts on design and architecture.

Alan also mentions the ideas of Jaron Lanier on the
complexity of programming.

For a bit of history, read about why Alan is called 'The
Father of Visual Basic'

Get even more inspiration from Alan's talk 'Following the
Maker's Dream' for this year's Bay Area Maker Faire.



This podcast is in English - Deze podcast is in het
Engels