Designing the Star User Interface [#UX]

One of my ‘A History of HCI in 15 Papers’

The Star system (circa 1980, and as described in Byte [1]) gave rise to five principles, which in my opinion, are so important and timeless that their formulation and practical application as part of the Xerox Star user interface was without doubt revolutionary.

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The Cocktail Party Problem [#accessibility #a11y]

“This can only be useful work in the domain of blindness, situation impairment, and accessibility in that it may be possible to convey limited Web page information spatially, dynamically, and with a high degree of comprehension at seven (or nine) times faster because of the ability to comprehend highly parallel speech.” One of my ‘A History of HCI in 15 Papers’

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