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"UX design wasn’t a thing yet" On my Amiga UX/UI design was a thing, layout, settings pages, forms, GUIs that did scale with different font sizes. At least for
by KingOfCoders 4y ago
"UX design wasn’t a thing yet"
On my Amiga UX/UI design was a thing, layout, settings pages, forms, GUIs that did scale with different font sizes. At least for some companies, some UIs had horrible UX though. Like when they added shadow to text labels.
On my CPC I wrote a GUI library with auto layouts and muli step flows woth |RX (?) commands with characters like ┤ [1]
for borders - always reading Apple magazines.
┌╴╴╴╴╴╴╴┐
│ Title │
├╴╴╴╴╴╴╴┤
│ Yes! │
└╴╴╴╴╴╴╴┘
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amstrad_CPC_character_set https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amstrad_CPC_character_set
- mobilene 4y agoGood point about the Amiga. Someone else here commented on Xerox PARC. So yes, there was UX design. However, in so many companies like the one I worked for in the story, it was utterly ignored.