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Why human interface matters

<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><div class="video"><div class="video_iframe"><iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/vALW9fVOXHQ?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;wmode=opaque&amp;controls=2&amp;autohide=1&amp;showinfo=0" width="627" height="353" class="video-filter video-youtube vf-valw9fvoxhq" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe></div></div> <p>I remember visiting my father at IBM and watching the massive doors open so they could wheel out the tray of punchcards. I remember going shopping for an Apple II Plus and staring at the glowing green letters across its monochrome display. I remember visiting my father at LGS, and grabbing the mouse on the LISA sitting on the desk next to his, and dragging everything I could into the pictorial representation of a trash can. I remember picking up the iPhone, tapping the Photos icon, and swiping and pinching my through images as though they were real objects beneath my fingers. I remember holding down the Home button and telling Siri to play my music, and smiling a moment later when it did just that. The history of computing is the history of human's interfacing with them, and in his latest video, Dave WIskus (http://twitter.com/dwiskus) shows how we got from there to here, and more importantly — why.<!--break--></p> <p>More: Better Elevation (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkeM0swJ50XdGFCBi8gFbaA)</p> <p>Update: A transcript is now available on Genius (http://genius.com/Better-elevation-a-brief-history-of-user-interface-annotated/)</p> </div></div></div><div id="comment-wrapper-nid-29335"></div><img width='1' height='1' src='http://tipb.com.feedsportal.com/c/33998/f/616881/s/4237baf3/sc/4/mf.gif' border='0'/><br clear='all'/>

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