I was just reading about that today. Alan Kay is to blame it seems, as for so much. :-)
"The desktop metaphor was first introduced by Alan Kay at Xerox PARC in 1970 and elaborated in a series of innovative software applications developed by PARC scientists throughout the ensuing decade. The first computer to use an early version of the desktop metaphor was the experimental Xerox Alto"[0]
For the wider context about desktop/folders etc see [1][2]
I found this [3] story linked to a while ago on here fascinating, about all the user testing done for Windows 95. They did a lot of watching people use the file/folder system, change things around etc, repeat etc. It's kind of funny, the problems people had.
I was just reading about that today. Alan Kay is to blame it seems, as for so much. :-)
"The desktop metaphor was first introduced by Alan Kay at Xerox PARC in 1970 and elaborated in a series of innovative software applications developed by PARC scientists throughout the ensuing decade. The first computer to use an early version of the desktop metaphor was the experimental Xerox Alto"[0]
For the wider context about desktop/folders etc see [1][2]
I found this [3] story linked to a while ago on here fascinating, about all the user testing done for Windows 95. They did a lot of watching people use the file/folder system, change things around etc, repeat etc. It's kind of funny, the problems people had.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desktop_metaphor
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphical_user_interface
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_graphical_user_...
[3] https://socket3.wordpress.com/2018/02/03/designing-windows-9...