From the article Man-Computer Symbiosis (1960), the author J.C.R. Licklider mentioned the importance of the Computer-Posted Wall Display. He said that some information must be presented simultaneously to all the men, preferably on a common grid, to coordinate their actions. Nowadays online collaboration becomes more and more important and necessary, especially when COVID-19 happened. The…
Modern computers and J.C.R. Licklider’s analysis of the relationship between humans and computers
This article by Licklider covers thinking about the relationship between humans and computers in the future. He proposed the definition of “symbiosis” between humans and computers and analyzed in detail the prerequisites for achieving human-computer symbiosis. This article is important because it analyzes the various problems that exist in the interaction between humans and computers….
A Computer Revolution: Mother of All Demos
Among the major achievements of the scientific and technological revolution, the most well-known is the computer close to our lives. We are now familiar with all kinds of personal computers, laptops, and smartphones, but when the concept of “computer” was born, they did not have so many features that are easy for humans to understand…
First Prototype-The Mother of All Demos
Tell the truth, it took me a while to figure out how the first demo of the computer that Doug Engelbart presented. Using the control panel which combined with the keyboard and mouse, Engelbart showed us the series of actions for sorting and organizing the shopping list (See the screenshot above). Although it took me…
Video Game Pioneer: Jerry Lawson
“The whole reason I did games was because people said, ‘You can’t do it. ‘ I’m one of the guys, if you tell me I can’t do something, I’ll turn around and do it.” Jerry Lawson Jerry Lawson brought interchangeable video games into people’s homes with the invention of the Fairchild Channel F, the precursor…
Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh
Margaret Macdonald, as known as one of the “The Glasgow Four”, was one of the most gifted and successful women artists in Scotland in the 1890s. As one of the first girls allowed to enroll in the Glasgow School of Art, Margaret and her friends transformed decorative and interior design with their new ‘Glasgow Style….
Understanding Human-Machine Symbiosis
In a time where technology often seems to be an extension of our bodies, it is of great importance that we as designers understand what happens between the human and the machine, as well as what comes of it. To understand the relationship, or the “in between”, we must first consider the role each character…
Kristy Tillman – Design is a Tool to Aid
Kristy Tillman is an interaction designer who is currently working as the head of global experience design for Slack. In this role, she is responsible for translating Slack’s culture and vision into design strategy and human experience across Slack’s international workplaces. Two years prior, Tillman joined Slack as the head of communication design. She built…
Tomoko Miho: ‘Borrowed Scenery’
Tomoko Miho (September 2, 1931-February 10, 2012) was a greatly influential graphic designer, who like many Japanese-Americans of her time, spent her formative years in an internment camp during World War II. Despite the constraints within her life, she is an example of greatness that emerges in spite of difficult, external factors. In her school…
Reflections on “The Mother of All Demos”
The prototypes Doug Engelbart initially published a programme of action which made a great influence on future interaction design in terms of GUI. From the video ”The Mother of All Demos”, it is great to see Engelbart shows instantly responsive and real-time editing features on the computing interfaces. He also makes use of the mouse…
Demos and Improve
By watching “The Mother of All Demos” and “The History of IBM”, we can learn a lot from their demo, some of it is still success to today’s interaction designer to practice. But also some of them could be better. Doug Englebart and the Stanford team have done many demos on the computer during that…
Grace Hopper Biography
Grace was born and raised in New York City in the year 1906. She majored in mathematics and physics at Vassar College. In 1928, Grace graduated from Vassar College and furthered her mathematics studies at the University of Yale. This year she also got married to Vincent Hopper hence becoming Grace Hopper. She interestingly kept…
Muriel Cooper
Muriel Cooper, an influential twentieth-century designer, best known for her pioneering in book design who also engaged in digital design, design research, and education. Muriel Cooper, born in 1925, attended college in Ohio State, and then went to Massachusetts College of Art. After graduation, she worked as a freelancer at a publishing company and became…
The Mother of Demos and its Place in Modern Society
Doug Englebart and his team have provided the very essence of information and its use via his demo of the computer. The computer did something no one could have imagined at the time. It collected data and information which was put to use in a practical setting. In the Mother of All Demos, Doug Englebart…
From Revolutionary to Widely Accepted
When watching Douglass Englebart’s demo of a computer and mouse prototype, I found myself having to remind myself of what time in technological history this device was produced due to how similar and yet vastly different it is from what we know today. It is easy to look at its massive size and simple interface…
Irene Au
Brian Zhao Erin Malone IXD History October 13, 2020 Irene Au Irene Au is an interaction designer, a design partner, a mentor, and a yoga teacher. Au attended the University of South Carolina (USC) from 1990 to 1994, she earned her Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Au finished USC without…
The Game Changer
Vannevar Bush had a vision – he believed in human flourishing and science. He wishfully envisioned the capacity of technologies would benefit humankind in this information society. To expand our knowledge in a faster and productive way, Memex was invented to make information more accessible. Bush laid the groundwork for the future to understand the…
Biography 2 – Laura Klein, author of Build Better Products and UX for Lean Startups Podcaster of What is Wrong with UX
Laura Klein is a product management and user experience design expert with over 20 years of experience in tech. Specializes in helping companies innovate responsibly and improve their product development process. Especially enjoys working with Lean start ups and agile development teams. Specialties: customer development, user research, business model creation, product development process improvements, user…
The importance of the “Man-Computer Symbiosis”
Under the impetus bring by the pioneers such as JCR Licklider, Doug Engelbart, Vannevar Bush computers changed from no user interface to has the graphic user interface. J. C. R. Licklider expressed his idea about the relationship between the human and computer and foreshadowed interactive computing in the “Man-Computer Symbiosis”. He realized that computers will…
The Mother of All Demos, Early computing and genesis of GUIs
The concept prototype that Doug Englebart and the team from Stanford demoed has a profound impact on the future practice of interaction design in the following. Prototype – as Doug Englebart mentioned right at the beginning of the demo that it was much easier to show than to tell. Back in the early days, it…