The Windows 95 user interface: A case study in usability engineering (1996)

kept by eddie mar 06

The Windows 95 UI team used iterative design and user testing to refine every detail, creating a landmark interface through disciplined usability engineering.

2002: Last.fm and Audioscrobbler Herald the Social Web
The article recounts how Last.fm and Audioscrobbler pioneered social music tracking and recommendation in the early 2000s.
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David Lerner, a Mr. Fix-it of Apple Computers, Dies at 72 - The New York Times
David Lerner co-founded Tekserve, a legendary Manhattan repair shop that became an essential haven for Apple users with troubled devices.
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A dispute over the TAB key highlights a mismatch between Microsoft and IBM organizational structures - The Old New Thing
A Microsoft engineer in Boca Raton escalated a TAB-key dispute to his manager, who refused to overrule him, leading to an IBM VP opposing the choice and a deadpan reply ending the debate.
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Dreamer – your home for personal intelligence // flurries of latent creativity
Dreamer is a new personal intelligence platform where users create and run AI agents via natural language, treating agents like applications in an operating system with the Sidekick as kernel.
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