Guy haviv - History of GUI visual design

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GUI / OS History
Brief

What kinds of interactive things
do we design / build?
Types of apps

- In-Browser vs. On-Desktop
- Web interfaces have little commonality
- Desktop interface have more commonality
Web vs. Desktop:
a superficial look on

What is an
Operating System?

Stuff that operates the hardware
+ means to write more software
Operating System

Low level stuff + UI Libraries
Means for building
more software?

Buttons, Menus, Check Boxes,
Pointers, Radio Buttons, Lists,
File Lists, etc.
UI Libraries?

an OS ships with it’s own
frameworks.
Windows + Dot Net
Mac OS X + Cocoa
Coupling♥

UI is culture.

like any other type
of design, it has a
rich history.

Let’s go
through some of
this history.

MS DOS

Every app UI was
built from scratch.

WIMP.
windows, icons, menus, pointer

XEROX PARC

these guys invented WYSIWYG
+ modern software
development + most of the GUI
elements we know today.
XEROX PARC

Apple
Lisa > Macintosh (System1..9)

Video
(did I remember to connect the speakers?)

(we’ll get back to Apple soon.)

Microsoft
Windows 1, 2, 3.11, 95, 98

Meanwhile...
Unix, Linux, IRIX

Unix
Low level system + X Windows

Unix
X Windows =
Minimal Definitions

Unix
X Windows =
Each system is different

CDE
multiple Unix companies join
together to define a desktop
standard.

Linux
Open source Unix + X Windows

Linux
X Windows again.
Multiple UI Libraries + Desktops

Linux
Gimp > Gtk > Gnome

Linux
QT > KDE
QT is now owned by Nokia.

Linux
What happens when you
mix a Gtk app with a KDE
Desktop?
hint: Copy & Paste doesn’t work.

IRIX
from SGI: Silicon Graphics

BeOS
“SGI for the rest of us”

NeXT
Steve’s other company.

QNX
One Floppy OS.
QNX is now owned by RIM - makers of Blackberry.
It powers the PlayBook.

Apple
Apple Buys NeXT > Mac OS X
back to:

Apple
Mac OS X
Unix + Aqua XWindows

Apple
Jaguar

Apple
Panther

Apple
Tiger

Apple
Leopard

Name roundup
DOS
Mac OS Classic (System 1..9)
Linux: Gnome, Kde, Gtk, QT
BeOS
QNX
Windows
NeXTSTEP
Mac OS X

So unlike the Web,
Desktop software brings about
a new term: Good Citizen

Good Citizen?

An interface
should match the
target platform.

But that’s a topic
for another day.

thank you.
Slides available on:
http://tinyurl.com/gooya-ui
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