“Star had many fewer commands than today’s systems, and it didn’t do it by having fewer functions. It just had fewer commands.” — Dave Smith¹ at The Final Demon

“Star had many fewer commands than today’s systems, and it didn’t do it by having fewer functions. It just had fewer commands.” — Dave Smith¹ at The Final Demonstration of the Xerox ‘Star’ Computer² Most UX designers are not as good as David Smith; they worship Apple/Jobs' “function follows form” misunderstanding of the Star GUI, and think you need to remove functionality in order to remove complexity. ¹ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Canfield_Smith https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Canfield_Smith ² video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OwG_rQ_Hqw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OwG_rQ_Hqw text: http://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/access/text/2015/09/102737965-05-01-acc.pdf http://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/access/text/201...