“Origins of the Apple human interface” lecture – an annotated transcription

Recently, the Computer History Museum has uploaded on its YouTube channel a lecture called Origins of the Apple human interface, delivered by Larry Tesler and Chris Espinosa. Being extremely interested in the subject myself, and seeing how apparently little thought is being given today to the subject, I wanted to quote a few selected excerpts from the talk, just to show what kind of hard work creating a user interface was back in the day when the Apple Lisa was being developed. [08:00] The reason I show it is that there was a lot of influence from Xerox (obviously) on the user interfaces that were done on the Lisa and the Macintosh — but maybe not as much as some people think.

Source: morrick.me