Photoshop Date created: 1988 (The software was originally developed in 1987 by the Knoll brothers, and then was sold to Adobe Systems Inc. in 1988.) Created by: brothers Thomas and John Knoll. Function: a simple solution for displaying grayscale images on monochrome displays. The photos above of the Knoll Brothers were taken by Jeff Schewe, you can see more of his portfolio here. Jeff...
Muriel Cooper’s demo of information presented in a typographic landscape is truly ahead of its time. What was demonstrated was not simply a 3D layout of type, it was something that was way before the tech world imagined any technology that could utilize such a human-computer experience. As an exploration of the idea, Cooper’s demo was flawed, limited and very prototypical. The...
From today’s perspective, Pong is a game too simple to be enjoyed by most, and Oregon Trail is lacking in immersion compared to more interactive experiences such as Red Dead Redemption. But I am also starting to see why these games could gain the success that they had at their times. Pong being one of the first well known video games, is very simple at its core. But although it is as...
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...
Millions of users daily drive an iPhone in the world today. No matter how heated the competition is throughout the years, Apple’s beloved smartphone would always find a way to stand out from the bunch and keep its userbase happy. The core of that amazing experience that keeps its users from switching away has always been its operating system – the iOS. iOS did not started as...
What is slack? Slack is a messaging app for business that connects people to the information they need. By bringing people together to work as one unified team, Slack transforms the way organizations communicate.Slack. “What Is Slack?” Slack Help Center, slack.com/help/articles/115004071768-What-is-Slack-. Accessed 15 Apr. 2022. Software delivery You can use Slack in your web browser or mobile...
Adobe illustrator is a computer graphics software released by adobe in 1978, conceived by John Warnock, and is a SAAS. Up to now, the illustrator has only run on computers. The original illustrator was designed for the Apple Macintosh, and as you can see from the picture below, the toolbar was on the left side, but there were not as many tools as there are now. The demo of illustrator when it was...
Adobe Photoshop is arguably the most widely-used photo-editing software in the world. It has done wonders for designers and photographers by providing a one-program solution for almost all design needs. Photoshop was created in 1988 when Ph.D. student Tom Knoll wrote a graphic application called “Display” on a Macintosh Plus. Initially, the software was made to display grayscale...
Photoshop began development in 1987 while attending Thomas Knoll. Early Photoshop was originally software for grayscale image processing for Macintosh Plus. Since then, several attempts have been made, and in 1990, Photoshop 1.0 was announced for Macintosh.Early Photoshop was created to edit images entered by scanners, and Adobe used the know-how of the printing industry at the time to connect...
Research who originally designed this software – who were the Interaction Designers? From my findings, John Warnock the co-founder of Adobe created the software. I was not able to find the name of any interaction designers involved in creating Adobe Illustrator though. Found a promotional video about illustrator from 1988. Very interesting youtube video. Adobe Illustrator in 2008 Adobe...
As the cornerstone of Epic Games also the backbone of many of our favorite games, the Unreal Engine is a game engine founded by Tim Sweeney in 1998 alongside the well-known first-person shooter game Unreal. Installed into the computer, the Unreal Engine features a high degree of portability, supporting a wide range of desktop, mobile, console and virtual reality platforms. The original intention...
Microsoft Word! We all know it, and chances are we all use it, too. But no software stays the same over time—that’s the nature of this iterative career path we’ve chosen. So let’s take a quick dive into Word’s history: Who designed Word, and when? Then called the Multi-Tool Word, Microsoft Word was brought into the world by Charles Simonyi and Richard Brodie (two former...
GarageBand is a digital audio software that allows users to create music.To understand why Apple wanted to create a free music-making app for beginners, you need to understand Apple’s goal for the Macintosh during that time because the iMac had been a very successful products for the company, and Apple had been slowly releasing new software for the machine to make it even more appealing and...
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The software I chose was WeChat, which was originally designed by Zhang Yong, which was then named “WeChat” by Ma Huateng and released to the public through Tencent Group.I didn’t find the original patent documents of WeChat on the Internet, but I found some patent documents about some special interaction methods of WeChat, one of which is “QR code anti-counterfeiting and...
Oregon Trail As one of the most successful games in American history, Oregon Trail is an early educational computer games that was one of the most played computer games at the time. In the background of Oregon Trail, the player assumes the role of a wagon leader guiding a party of settlers from Independence, Missouri to the Willamette River and valley in Oregon. Although the Oregon Trail is an...