History of The Graphical User Interface (GUI): A Wonderful Curse

Interface Studies
Interface Studies
4.8 هزار بار بازدید - 8 ماه پیش - Today's GUIs have a dirty
Today's GUIs have a dirty little secret.

As AI, Virtual Reality, and ubiquitous computing are reshaping the realms of design and engineering, it's crucial to delve into the origins of the graphical user interface (GUI) and uncover its deeper layers. It's time to step away from design tools, methods, windows and buttons and dive a bit into where all this came from, what we have today, and what we've lost along the way.

This video is a personal exploration into the GUI's history, focusing on its complexities, marvels, and contradictions. We'll go beyond the surface to reveal the GUI's dirty little secret and understand its significant role in our digital evolution.

Chapters
03:26 Part 01: Can't escape history
03:29 Early computers
06:43 The CRT technology
09:09 Vannevar Bush and the memex machine
10:52 Cold war and SAGE computer
13:14 Part 02: What's a computer for?
13:23 Joseph Licklider and man-computer symbiosis
19:55 Ivan Sutherland and the Sketchpad System
21:36 Douglas Engelbart and augmenting human intellect
27:31 Part 03: The mother of all demos
32:15 The invention of the mouse
35:44 Verb-noun commands and other peripherals
38:26 Video collaboration and screen sharing
39:19 Introduction of ARPANet
40:39 Ted Nelson and hypertext
43:44 Rand Tablet and GRAIL
47:12 Part 04: "We shape our tools and thereafter our tools shape us"
47:22 Alan Kay
49:57 Alan Kay's encounter with Seymour Papert
50:51 Influence of media & educational psychology on software design
58:29 The Alto computer, Smalltalk and the birth of modern GUI
01:02:51 Overlapping windows
01:04:29 Pop-up (context) menus
01:05:49 Larry Tesler
01:08:25 The use of icons for programming with Pygmalion by David Smith
01:11:27 GYPSY and Bravo text editors and their user interface
01:16:46 The design of file browsers
01:18:05 The birth of the desktop metaphor
01:19:48 Steve Job's visit to PARC, Xerox failures, and the GUI on personal computers (Lisa, Macintosh, IBM, Windows, Amiga)
01:34:25 Part 05: It's a wonderful curse
01:34:28 What we lost with the desktop metaphor
01:39:40 Jeff Raskin & the Canon Cat computer interface
01:43:11 The lost world of ZUIs (Zoomable User Interfaces) on an operating system
01:46:05 MIT's Spatial Dataland
01:47:40 Ted Nelson, Xanadu and the curse of imitating paper on a screen
01:53:43 what the web was about, and what it ended up with
01:59:17 mobile computing inherited the curse
02:02:02 Outro: A very short conclusion

Intro Music:
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Music from #InAudio: https://inaudio.org/
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Dreamwave Lofi Ambient (No Copyright Music) by MokkaMusic / Reflections of Infinity
Deep Dreamwave Ambient (No Copyright Music) by MokkaMusic / Foggy City
Dreamscape Ambient For Reflective Evening (No Copyright Music) by MokkaMusic / Snowy Silence
Calm Deep and Peaceful (No Copyright Music) by MokkaMusic / Calmness

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Track Name: Retro Dreamscape - Twin Musicom
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