From Sketchpad to ILoveSketch
Quite some time ago, in the early 1960s, Ivan Sutherland developed an interactive sketching system. Even if you do not consider the bulky house-size computers of the time, Sketchpad remains a remarkable milestone in HCI. Here is a short clip out of a seminar by Alan Kay "Doing with Images Makes Symbols. Communicating with Computers"(Apple 1987) where he comments on Sketchpad:
Now please fast forward by 46 years an watch what's possible today:
ILoveSketch from Seok-Hyung Bae on Vimeo.
Amazing, isn't it? (Source: IxDA-discuss)
Matthias Müller-Prove is a User Experience Architect for Desktop Virtualization at Sun. Sometimes he blogs here – sometimes at Acetylcholinesterase.
Well yes, it's certainly "amazing" how little progress we've made in 46 years, if that's what you mean...
Posted by 78.16.143.101 on October 13, 2008 at 05:59 AM PDT #