First, there were Windows apps, with menus, entirely browseable by keyboard shortcuts for every menu, contextual help with F1 everywhere, universal and automati

First, there were Windows apps, with menus, entirely browseable by keyboard shortcuts for every menu, contextual help with F1 everywhere, universal and automatic support for Tab, Esc, Enter, speech support, applications were complex and as you grew better at them, you could browse them faster than a clerk buying an airplane ticket on Amadeus (the ancient text interface where each keystroke is a complex command). Then we had apps and webapps. People loved them. They had no keyboard shortcuts, no menus, “tab” didn’t lead anywhere, colors were not uniform, concepts neither, and “usability” meant “fewer functions”. There was no way to write on your resume that you were expert at any of them. And they replaced each other fast. Let’s hope we’ll reinvent advanced user interfaces.