Since computers this product have walked into normal people’s life, any type of user interface that creates a better experience had been designed. And Xerox Star released in 1982 and Macintosh released in 1984 were the sign of the user interface of the first generation. Some designs are already been replace by today’s new design…
All Updates and Retentions are for a Better Experience
The state of UI design is always in progress. From its 40 year history, designers have been making updates. Of course, that doesn’t mean everything has to change. Each UI element and function has its own meaning of existence, and all updates and retentions are for a better experience for users. After watching demos of…
My thoughts about Oregon Trail
As someone who is already familiar with mouse click control video games, when I played Oregon Trail for the first time, I experienced a huge difference between keyboard control and mouse click control. On the screen of text and options, Oregon Trail is very similar to many video games today-the scenario is written right on…
How History Happened
The computer user interface system has been evolving since it appeared. The starting point of this history is the Xerox Star. Xerox Star provided a very good base for the later user interface design. It introduced windows, icons, option sheets, files, folder, and generic commands. Mouse and keyboard were also utilized in this system, and…
Why Kids Like Oregon Trail?
I think this game was popular because it was visually attractive and customizable. The players could choose their favorite characters, determine how they would spend their money, and which routes they would travel. It was visually similar to the arcade games such as Pacman, as seen through the fonts. In Oregon Trial, it allows people…
What We Learn from Changes of GUIs
According to the video of Xerox Star, there are multiple files and documents icons shown on the desktop. Those icons are familiar objects we all see in the office, representing different contents such as files, documents, records of files, and files drawer. When the users open the document, a window comes up with the contents…
Oregon Trail: Finally Made It
I recall playing Oregon Trail when I was a child, and I had never made it to the destination. Something always went wrong, and I didn’t have the decision-making skills required to keep my party alive. Playing it today, I’m happy to announce that my party and I have successfully arrived! I think Oregon Trail…
What makes The Oregon Trail popular
“The Oregon Trail” was born in 1971 and was officially completed in 1974. It is one of the most successful games in American history, with more than 65 million copies sold. And it is an educational function game developed by the Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium (MECC). “Oregon Trail” is designed to help students understand the…
The Influence of The Oregon Trail
Oregon Trail was a game I had never played before. When I went through my first playthrough I had no idea what to do. I knew it was a story driven game based on my decisions I made in-game. During my playthrough, I wanted to be unconventional and created the worst case scenario possible to…
User Interface changes, from Xerox Star&Macintosh to now
Xerox Star was the first commercial personal computer introduced by Xerox Corporation in 1982. The technologies Xerox Star used that have since become the standard for personal computers now we used. And these original functions from Xerox Star fundamentally laid the foundation for the future development of the GUI. A window-based GUI, icons, folders, mouse,…
Seeing RPG Game Development From Oregon Trail
Although released in the 1990s, Oregon Trail is a game with a relatively mature system. I was surprised to find that it has the features and elements of most RPG games today, such as autonomy, uncertainty, storyline, background, and sound effects. These elements still exist today, indicating that they are enough and necessary to attract…
The First Computers to Present Day Technology
Modern interaction design principles have been born out of the iterations of past technologies like Xerox Star and Macintosh. In the demos for these technologies, many aspects could be seen when looking at the past design principles. Both the Xerox Star and Mac OS used very simple looking interfaces. They did not take in consideration…
Reality & vision!
Tell the truth, I didn’t get attracted by the Oregon Trail that much. Because I am not a fan of a computer game and I already tried several games that really fancy and cool, I get bored within several ’day’ rounds. (am I the only one?) From my point of view, the game is organized…
I MUST compare those UIs!
Those early days demo are so so exciting! I always want to compare the Mac and the Windows UI for so long and now I know that I have to do it! Yeah! For me, Mac provides more freedom for users to experience different kinds of functions, such as font and wallpaper. As a beginner…
It’s a Metaphor.
When comparing the graphical interfaces of Xerox Star and original Macintosh to that of modern day, it is easy to contrast the aesthetic elements. What was more notable to me was that the basic framework of the Desktop remained more or less a fixed constant, as the aesthetic design and the general computing capabilities evolved…
Thanks for Recommending Me this Great Game!
The game Oregon Trail is a very interesting role playing game. I am very impressed by this 50-year old game after playing it. The game tries to recreate an adventure of travelers traveling through America on a wagon for players. This game has very good plots. The game designers might have considered all kinds of…
What you see is what you get
Looking at my keyboard, I appreciate the invention of shortcut keys. When I saw that the 1982 version of the keyboard in the Xerox Star demo had many function keys, such as those focusing on fonts and editing pages. I can understand that in the early stages of design, each section has its own unique…
The popularity of the Oregon Trail
When thinking about “groundbreaking” video games in the 2000s, during the game release announcements like Call of Duty, The Walking Dead, and games of that sorts, they would talk about “choose-your-own-path” games where every decision would have their consequence, and every consequence would create a new storyline. This would make it more interactive and life-like…
The Start and Macintosh influences on the modern interaction design
Xerox Star interface design imitated the office environment, which Steve Jobs would steal for his Macintosh design. The overlap here was to mimic everyday life, which then changed the way we all interact with computer. The demo of the original Macintosh showed many aspects of everyday tasks like playing game, drawing, checking emails, calculating, etc….
