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SketchpadSketchpad

A first direct manipulation user interface.


Timeline
1963 A Ph.D. thesis describing Sketchpad is defended by Ivan Sutherland
Detailed timeline

Articles
“Sketchpad: A man-machine graphical communication system” from proceedings of AFIPS 1963
“Of mice and menus: Designing the user-friendly interface” from IEEE Spectrum 1989
“The father of computer graphics” from Byte 1990

More information
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Screenshots

Sketchpad is not yet fully documented at GUIdebook, but you can try the articles or the book excerpts for some screenshots.


Books

“Interface culture”
“Insanely great”

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