Oral History of Annette Wagner
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Interviewed by Hansen Hsu on
Interviewed by Hansen Hsu on 2019-12-13 in Mountain View, CA
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Annette Wagner was a graphic artist and human interface designer who created fonts and icons for the Lisa. Wagner grew up in Watsonville, California, and studied graphic design at Cabrillo College and San Jose State. She originally joined the Lisa team at Apple as a contractor, but eventually took on full responsibility for graphic design elements on the Lisa as a full employee. After being laid off due to the Lisa team’s merger with the Macintosh team in 1984, she was rehired as a contractor, ultimately rejoining as an employee in the Human Interface group under Bruce Tognazzini, doing user interface design, taking part in user testing, and presenting papers at CHI. She also designed the famous dogcow icon for a print panel on the Macintosh, a One Button Installer for the Mac, and was the main interface designer for Macintosh System 7, using Hypercard to prototype her designs. Wagner was deposed in the Apple-Microsoft look and feel lawsuit, where she testified that her icon designs for the Lisa were wholly original, as she had not seen anything from the Xerox Star when she designed them. She later worked on the Pink operating system team, but decided to leave right as it was spinning out to become Taligent, joining Sun instead, where she continued to work in human interface design, first on the NeWS windowing system and later on Java. Since leaving Sun, Wagner has returned to her roots in the art world.
* Note: Transcripts represent what was said in the interview. However, to enhance meaning or add clarification, interviewees have the opportunity to modify this text afterward. This may result in discrepancies between the transcript and the video. Please refer to the transcript for further information - http://www.computerhistory.org/collec...
Visit computerhistory.org/collections/oralhistories/ for more information about the Computer History Museum's Oral History Collection.
Catalog Number: 102795830
Lot Number: X9208.2020
© Computer History Museum
Annette Wagner was a graphic artist and human interface designer who created fonts and icons for the Lisa. Wagner grew up in Watsonville, California, and studied graphic design at Cabrillo College and San Jose State. She originally joined the Lisa team at Apple as a contractor, but eventually took on full responsibility for graphic design elements on the Lisa as a full employee. After being laid off due to the Lisa team’s merger with the Macintosh team in 1984, she was rehired as a contractor, ultimately rejoining as an employee in the Human Interface group under Bruce Tognazzini, doing user interface design, taking part in user testing, and presenting papers at CHI. She also designed the famous dogcow icon for a print panel on the Macintosh, a One Button Installer for the Mac, and was the main interface designer for Macintosh System 7, using Hypercard to prototype her designs. Wagner was deposed in the Apple-Microsoft look and feel lawsuit, where she testified that her icon designs for the Lisa were wholly original, as she had not seen anything from the Xerox Star when she designed them. She later worked on the Pink operating system team, but decided to leave right as it was spinning out to become Taligent, joining Sun instead, where she continued to work in human interface design, first on the NeWS windowing system and later on Java. Since leaving Sun, Wagner has returned to her roots in the art world.
* Note: Transcripts represent what was said in the interview. However, to enhance meaning or add clarification, interviewees have the opportunity to modify this text afterward. This may result in discrepancies between the transcript and the video. Please refer to the transcript for further information - http://www.computerhistory.org/collec...
Visit computerhistory.org/collections/oralhistories/ for more information about the Computer History Museum's Oral History Collection.
Catalog Number: 102795830
Lot Number: X9208.2020
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