Designing the Star User Interface

Johnson, J., Roberts, T. L., Verplank, W., Smith, D. C., Irby, C. H., Beard, M., & Mackey, K. (1982). Designing the Star User Interface: a retrospective. Byte, 242-282.

Type

Journal article

Intellectual base

Primary research

Year

1982

DOI

10.1109/2.35211

Link

https://doi.org/10.1109/2.35211

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Domain-specific

• Desktop Metaphor
  • The mapping gives novices a coherent predictive model: operations on visible digital objects borrow expectations from familiar office work.
• Direct Manipulation
  • The desktop-and-icon setting was established by the Xerox Star (1981), though the Star itself had no dragging: its Move and Copy were dedicated function keys — select the object, press MOVE, indicate a destination

    This sourceThe Xerox Star retrospective by its own designers, source of the select-then-MOVE interaction and of the Star's desktop-and-icon setting; it describes no dragging.

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