1. The Xerox Star: A Retrospective Jeff Johnson and Teresa L. Roberts US West Advanced Technologies William Verplank, IDTwo David C. Smith, Cognition, Inc Charles H. Irby and Marian Beard, Metaphor Computer Systems Kevin Mackey, Xerox

2. About Authors Jeff Johnson : UI Researcher at HP Labs currently at UIWizards Inc www.keller.com/people/jeff_Johnson.html Teresa L. Roberts : UI Researcher at US West Advanced Technologies William Verplank : Interaction design consultant with IDTwo David C. Smith : Advanced System Engg at Apple Charles H. Irby : VP of Metaphor Computer Systems, s/w products division Marian Beard : Director of release management at Metaphor Computer Systems Kevin Mackey : Software Engg at Logitech

3. What’s the paper?? It’s a paper by some of the designers of STAR to describe: 1. Where Star came from? 2. What is distinctive about it? 3. How the original design has changed? To correct some of the misconceptions about STAR that have been there in the trade press

4. STAR: MACHINE AND NETWORK LEVEL 1. Distributed and Personal Computing 2. Mouse 3. Bitmapped Display WINDOW AND FILE MANAGER LEVEL 1. Windows 2. Integrated Applications

5. STAR: USER INTERFACE LEVEL: 1. Desktop Metaphor 2. Generic Commands 3. Direct Manipulation and GUI 4. Icons and iconic file management 5. Progressive Disclosure

6. STAR: Document Editor Level 1. WYSIWYG Document Editor 2. Extended character set for Multilingual Capability

7. History of Star: Figure 8 in page 63 S/W developed parallel with the H/W 30 person yrs: to design the UI, functionality and H/W ViewPoint: version 1.0 released in 1985, Bob Ayers rewrote the infrastructure of the system according to the more flexible tajo model

8. Good Features About STAR that I Like Good Graphic Design Use of the Desktop Metaphor Use of the 16-bit character set