Xerox PARC was the pioneer behind the development of the earliest GUI systems, although they did not manage to capitalize on their own innovations well enough, its fundamentals and philosophies influenced many individuals such as Steve Jobs to really explore its potentials and eventually bring that idea forward in massively successful products like the Macintosh OS. These successes little by...
This is a heuristic evaluation of my perspective that compares early GUIs to modern GUIs. Image source: Image source: A screenshot of my desktop (Apple MacBook Pro) What changed? Color: the immediate change that I see is color. Early GUIs only had black and white, while today we have all sorts of colors. Resolution & speed: today we have interfaces of high resolution leading to a higher speed...
Looking at the very first interfaces of a computer from Xerox star, we can see a lot of simulation and the same pattern of the layout. First, the layout of the desktop is almost the same as what we have now, with folders stacked one after another as the default arrangement. The icon for the folder and the text file is very similar to what we’ve been using till nowadays, the only difference for...
The graphical user interface in a 1984 Macintosh was pretty impressive, considering Microsoft Windows wasn’t even out yet, and computers were basically command-line interfaces at this time. So having a graphical desktop environment was pretty remarkable. The graphical interface in a 1984 Macintosh is black and white, and runs at 512 x 384 resolution — it was designed for a Mac with an...
The computer interface has changed a lot since the first release of the Star system. There is also a massive leap from Star to the first macintosh. What I noticed the most was the evolution of the keyboard. As people can see, there is a separate part for the Star keyboard to accomplish tasks like move, copy& paste, etc. However, users use digital buttons in the macintosh system to complete...