You may not realize it, but our existing UI/UX paradigms are mainly from the 1970s
For some historical context which really shocked me, behold The Mother of All Demos from 1968: Youtube video, Wikipedia page. It’s a 100-minute video, but you can skip lots and watch at >>1x speed.
Quote from Wikipedia:
“The Mother of All Demos” is a name retroactively applied to a landmark computer demonstration...
The live demonstration featured the introduction of a complete computer hardware and software system… The 90-minute presentation demonstrated for the first time many of the fundamental elements of modern personal computing: windows, hypertext, graphics, efficient navigation and command input, video conferencing, the computer mouse, word processing, dynamic file linking, revision control, and a collaborative real-time editor. Engelbart’s presentation was the first to publicly demonstrate all of these elements in a single system. The demonstration was highly influential and spawned similar projects at Xerox PARC in the early 1970s. The underlying concepts and technologies influenced both the Apple Macintosh and Microsoft Windows graphical user interface operating systems in the 1980s and 1990s.
The underlying concepts and technologies influenced both the Apple Macintosh and Microsoft Windows graphical user interface operating systems in the 1980s and 1990s.
As far as ordinary users are concerned, graphical UI is from the late eighties or early nineties, when it could be implemented affordably. It was arguably ahead of its time in the seventies and sixties.
For some historical context which really shocked me, behold The Mother of All Demos from 1968: Youtube video, Wikipedia page. It’s a 100-minute video, but you can skip lots and watch at >>1x speed.
Quote from Wikipedia:
Perhaps we ought to start thinking about adding novelties like natural language AI assistants after our current UIs match those shown in that video.
As far as ordinary users are concerned, graphical UI is from the late eighties or early nineties, when it could be implemented affordably. It was arguably ahead of its time in the seventies and sixties.