Re: Lisa Office System and GUI

From: Shirl <shirlgato_at_email.domain.hidden>
Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2005 09:08:59 -0700

Marcin,

The field of GUI design seems to be full of creativie copying and alterations ans originality. Many many many people are involved in this area and they learn from each other. At least that is my impression.

I think this behavior is very good since it provides innovations which hopefully end up making computers easier to use by their regular users.

The only regret I have about this area is the WIMP (windows/icons/mouse pointer) interface is still around. There must be something better than this. I know efforts have been made to develop the WIMP successor, but these seemed to have failed due to WIMP's hegemony in the computing world UI.

• David Craig

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>From: Marcin Wichary <mwichary_at_email.domain.hidden>
>To: "LisaList" <lisalist_at_email.domain.hidden>
>Subject: Re: Lisa Office System and GUI
>Date: Sun, Jan 9, 2005, 3:13 AM
>

>> And the following Lines are very interesting, cause Jef Raskin didn't
>> agree with Bruce Horn's notes, so a very very very interesting
>> discussion began and there you can read some remarkable facts, who
>> cloned what (or even copied from whom) and then tried to tell the rest
>> of the world that something revolutionary new has been invented.
>
> To put some things into perspective... Apple copied some stuff from
> Microsoft Windows as well, for example tabs, which appeared in Windows
> 95 first -- or even in some Windows 3.x apps -- and then later in Mac
> OS 8. The whole concept of ExposŽ is said to have been researched in
> Microsoft before Panther (but this might be as well an overstatement...
> or the case of parallel research on similar topics).
>
> And while Microsoft might've started on a wrong foot, some
> human-computer interaction experts believe now that Microsoft innovates
> in GUI and UI fields much more than Apple. For example, you can
> routinely see many Microsoft employees at the biggest conferences in
> the field, while Apple people are sadly absent. Also, the whole Mac OS
> X is considered very conservative, and dock the biggest GUI blunder in
> ages.
>
>
> Marcin Wichary
> e:\> mwichary_at_email.domain.hidden
> w:\> www.aci.com.pl/mwichary >> Attached
> w:\> www.aci.com.pl/mwichary/gui >> Graphical User Interface gallery
> w:\> www.10yearsofbeingboring.com >> 10 years of Being Boring
> w:\> www.usability.pl >> Usability.pl
>
>
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