The Sketchbook of Susan Kare, the Artist Who Gave Computing a Human Face | NeuroTribes. Hello there! If you enjoy the content on Neurotribes, consider subscribing for future posts via email or RSS feed. Graphical interface pioneer Susan Kare, photo by R.J. Muna Point, click. The gestures and metaphors of icon-driven computing feel so natural and effortless to us now, it seems strange to recall navigating in the digital world any other way.
Until Apple’s debut of the Macintosh in 1984, however, most of our interactions with computers looked more like this: How did we get from there to here? iPad photo by Ben Atkin, under Creative Commons license The Mac wasn’t the first computer to present the user with a virtual desktop of files and folders instead of a command line and a blinking cursor. The revolutionary ideas in Engelbart’s demo were further developed at Xerox PARC, where a 24-year-old Steve Jobs took a legendary tour in 1979 that convinced him that the GUI represented the democratic future of computing. Steve Jobs, 1983, by Susan Kare Susan Kare joins the Mac team. Sculpture. “Rolling through the Bay”, the world’s largest kinetic sculpture made entirely of toothpicks. It has taken Scott Weaver more than 35 years and 100,000 toothpicks to build it.
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