The sketchbook of susan kare, the artist who gave computing a human face

Point, click.

The gestures and metaphors of icon-driven computing feel so natural and effortless to us now, it seems strange to recall navigating in the digital world any other way. Until Apple’s debut of the Macintosh in 1984, however, mostof our interactions with computers looked more like this:

Command line

How did we get from there to here?

iPad photo by Ben Atkin

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By Steve Silberman for PLoS Blogs 22 Nov 2011.

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