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)
10 Oct 2008
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