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 function. Until now, keyboards have shortcut keys, and there are specific shortcut keys in different software. In the Xerox Star demo, the design of the computer screen is similar to the current one. Folders and documents have different icons. Overlapping pages are similar to today’s interface, paper, folders, file cabinets, mail boxes, and so on – an electronic metaphor for the office. they hoped this would make the electronic “world” “It seems more familiar, less alien, and require less training. This is also the design of many icons to simplify things in our lives and then design them as icons.

I think many changes have taken place in the past and today. For example, the keyboard now has many shortcut keys, and the current interface is very simple. But many have not changed, such as the toolbar. The toolbar used on the desktop has developed to this day, and the position usually appears at the top of the web page. It was also at the top in the early page design of the past.

After understanding the development history of interface, I think the basic elements of the desktop application Ul design include: windows, menus, toolbars, icons. I wonder why the basic elements of desktop UI design, and even the tools like mouse and keyboard, have been applied to today’s personal computers without qualitative changes. I personally think that there are several factors: the graphical interface may be the most friendly and mature human-computer interaction information carrier. The reason why we know words is that when we are literate, we first remember the shape and form and then match and remember the meaning by practice.

Bibliography:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xerox_Star#:~:text=The%20Xerox%20Star%20workstation%2C%20officially,(two%2Dbutton)%2C%20Ethernet

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3 thoughts on “What you see is what you get

  1. Thank you for sharing! very interesting to know that the graphical interface may be the most friendly and mature human-computer interaction information carrier.

  2. I like what you said “This is also the design of many icons to simplify things in our lives and then design them as icons.” Yes, the icon is derived from the real object shape in life, which is the most convenient for users to understand and use.

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