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Desktop Metaphor
The widespread adoption of the ‘desktop’ metaphor underscored that early personal computers would become workplace technologies.
from The Filing Cabinet by CRAIG ROBERTSON
Kalyani T added
- This is because the Desktop was originally designed in 1973 to suit a very different need in computation—the need to mirror digital content with its physical equivalent (WYSIWYG, anyone?). But in a post-Internet world (at the cusp of 5G and the AI singularity, I might add), the way we consume and produce content has largely moved away from the bagg... See more
from The desktop metaphor must die by UX Collective
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