Learning From Terminals to Design the Future of User Interfaces
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Learning From Terminals to Design the Future of User Interfaces
20 years ago, Jef Raskin (the founder of the Macintosh project) asserted that the desktop interface strategy was “inefficient and inhumane.”
UX Collective • The desktop metaphor must die
The transition from the CLI to the GUI abstracted away the laborious verbal communication between humans and computers and replaced it with visually appealing, expensively designed interfaces.
Gaby Goldberg • The Command Line Comeback
