Essential Guide to User Interface Design PART 1 The User Interface – Introduction and Overview Chapter 1 – Importance of the User Interface
Chapter 1 – Importance of the UI Amount of programming code devoted to UI > 50% Defining the UI (subset of HCI) I/O Importance of Good Design What is “good design”? Is there time? Benefits of Good Design
Chapter 1 – Importance of the UI History of HCI Punch cards, Line printersEarly computers (1950s-60s) Keyboards, MonitorsCommand language based (1970s-1980s) Mouse, trackball, touch pad, touch screens Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs) (1990s - ) Multitouch screen, Voice, synthesized speech, gesture “Intelligent” interfaces (2000s - )
10/21/2015 Columbus State University 18 th Century: Jacquard’s Loom London Museum of Science
19 th Century – Difference Engine
1940s British Computers Collusus – Bletchley Park Manchester Baby – University of Manchester (reproduction)
RAND’s vision of the future From ImageShack web site // ; original source unknown
Eniac (1943) ENIAC, the world's first all electronic numerical integrator and computer. From IBM Archives.
Punch card, keypunch and then VDUs Slide 1- 9
PLATO (computer system) Programmed Logic for Automated Teaching Operations -first (ca. 1960, on ILLIAC I) generalized computer assisted instruction system.ILLIAC Icomputer assisted instruction
Ivan Sutherland’s SketchPad-1963 Sophisticated drawing package hierarchical structures defined pictures and sub-pictures object-oriented programming Icons input techniques (light pen) separation of screen from drawing coordinates From
The First Computer Mouse (about 1964) Designed by Douglas Engelbart and Bill Inglés at the Stanford Research Institute (improved at Xerox PARC).
Dynabook vision - Alan Kay (1969) prototype of a notebook computer : “Imagine having your own self-contained knowledge manipulator in a portable package the size and shape of an ordinary notebook. Suppose it had enough power to out-race your senses of sight and hearing, enough capacity to store for later retrieval thousands of page- equivalents of reference materials, poems, letters, recipes, records, drawings, animations, musical scores...”
Xerox Alto (1974) & Star (1981)
MITS Altair
Apple Lisa (1983)
REFERENCES A Brief History of Human Computer Interaction Technology by Brad A. Myers – 1996 A Brief History of Human Computer Interaction Technology Dealers of Lightning XEROX parc and the dawn of the computer age by Michael A. Hiltzik –