The Shift Away from Traditional User Interfaces

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The Shift Away from Traditional User Interfaces

Posted July 10, 2007 | Leadership |

It is amazing to think that the QWERTY keyboard layout invented by Christopher Latham Sholes to minimize jamming of manual typewriter keys is now almost 140 years old. It is almost as amazing to realize that the familiar mouse-and-windows GUI is nearly 25 years old and that the Mosaic-inspired Web browser interface is roughly 15 years old.

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Ed Yourdon

Ed Yourdon was cofounder, with Karen Coburn, of Cutter Consortium. Ed served as Fellow of the Cutter Business Technology Council, and Founding Editor and Editor Emeritus of the Cutter IT Journal. He chaired Cutter's Summit for many years. Mr. Yourdon is widely known as the lead developer of the structured analysis/design methods of the 1970s. He was a codeveloper of the Yourdon/Whitehead method of object-oriented (OO) analysis/design and the… Read More

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The Shift Away from Traditional User Interfaces

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