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…
Communicating with an Interface
The demo from Doug Englebart and the team from Stanford was extremely profound to the future of interaction design as it created the space for users to have interactions with a computer that incorporated graphical interface elements like we see today. The idea that users can experience an intimate screen where they control what is…
Brenda Laurel – Inclusive Gaming
Brenda Laurel is a defining figure in the field of computational media. Laurel was born on November 20th, 1950 in Columbus, Ohio. She originally pursued theatre at Depauw University and Ohio State University, but soon discovered her interest in personal computers. While studying for her PHD, Laurel’s friend showed her a computer imaging project he…
The beginning of human technological life
Doug Engelbart was the first person to make the computer we are now familiar with. The electronic and mechanical ticking in the Mother of All Demos made me feel like I was back in that time. Doug Engelbart demonstrated how to control the first-generation mouse and computer screen. That’s amazing. We are using the current…
Become a leader – Lola Oyelayo-Pearson
Lola Oyelayo-Pearson is a UK design & product strategist. Lola graduated from the University of Birmingham with a bachelor’s degree in engineering in 2003. During her college, she discovered her unique interests in interactive systems and learned the essential skills that helped her work with people to produce better solutions. She then pursued a master’s…
Grow your company with good design – Irene Au
Irene Au is an operating partner at Khosla Ventures and was the former head of design and user experience teams at Google, Yahoo, Netscape, and Udacity. What she does in her job is to work with portfolio companies and make their design and user experience great. In her role, Irene is more like a leader…
Sue Booker and Siri
Have you ever use Siri? How do you feel about it? Do you think it is smart, does it help you sometimes, is Siri make your experience using iPhone getting easier? Today, we are going to look at the Design Manager of Siri, Sue Booker.Sue Booker is currently the Design Manager of Siri Health &…
From “The Mother of All Demos” to interaction design
Douglas Engelbart presented a landmark computer demonstration called “The Mother of All Demos” on December 9, 1968. He introduced a complete computer system that includes both hardware and software in this demo. A lot of fundamental elements for a computer can be found in this demo such as windows, computer mouse, word processing, hypertext, and…
IBM Can Predict the Future?
In Mother of All Demos, they took the “show” rather than “tell” approach, and immediately you can see how this is used in keynotes and other tech presentations to this day. Doug Englebart begins by showing the first version of the copy/ paste feature we know and love. Which I think was humorous in that…
Keyboard and Mouse – don’t take them for granted
I’m now typing down this blog post in front of the screen. But imagine an alternative: Instead of using a keyboard, in front of me there is a large stack of paper cards and a hole puncher. I need to match every letter with an exact position on the card, then punch holes one by…