Bill Atkinson was the principal designer and developer of the graphical user interface (GUI) of the Apple Lisa and Apple Macintosh. He was the creator of the ground-breaking MacPaint application and its novel interaction techniques, and he also designed and implemented QuickDraw, the fundamental toolbox that the Lisa and Macintosh used for graphics. He also conceived, designed and implemented HyperCard, the first popular hypermedia system. He invented many now-common interaction techniques, including the menu bar, the marching ants selection used in painting programs, the Selection lasso, FatBits, pull-off menus (where a menu becomes a palette), and many others.
Recommended Readings:
Bill Atkinson, "Joining Apple Computer", Facebook post, April 27, 2018. Facebook, or local pdf:
Brad Myers: Schedule for 05-640: Interaction Techniques, Spring, 2019:
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~bam/uicourse/05440inter2019/schedule....
Guest Lecture #1: Bill Atkinson
See Bill Atkinson's Lisa development polaroids:
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~bam/uicourse/05440inter2019/Bill_Atki...
See video of Bill's talk:
https://scs.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=...
Bill Atkinson was the principal designer and developer of the graphical user interface (GUI) of the Apple Lisa and Apple Macintosh. He was the creator of the ground-breaking MacPaint application and its novel interaction techniques, and he also designed and implemented QuickDraw, the fundamental toolbox that the Lisa and Macintosh used for graphics. He also conceived, designed and implemented HyperCard, the first popular hypermedia system. He invented many now-common interaction techniques, including the menu bar, the marching ants selection used in painting programs, the Selection lasso, FatBits, pull-off menus (where a menu becomes a palette), and many others.
Recommended Readings:
Bill Atkinson, "Joining Apple Computer", Facebook post, April 27, 2018. Facebook, or local pdf:
https://www.facebook.com/bill.atkinson.9862/posts/1021646088...
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~bam/uicourse/05440inter2019/Bill%20At...