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Add Kay's WWDC 1990 talk to catalog

Open jryans opened this issue 4 years ago • 0 comments

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRrR4ryx-yE

Wide-ranging talk on many different themes. Need to watch again to take better notes, but here are few to start:

  • 45:23: Cannot afford to have generic tools (e.g. desktop publishing) from one company any more, instead make an OS / Finder for desktop publishing that others can plug into
  • 48:20: Customizable components that need to be self-describing (even more than object from systems like Smalltalk)
  • 57:23: How do we make more it the way we like it?
  • 57:57: Every user in the first month of using your tools has ideas about the way it should actually be
  • 58:06: With application written in HyperCard, you can see people make little changes, 1-2 / week, but after a few months, they've got it much more they way they would like it to be
  • 59:35: When you think of the system ahead of time as something that the end user is going to do more with than just twitch parameters you've set, then you'll design it in a different way.
  • 1:00:10: When they pop the hood, there's a schematic version of what you have optimized down below, and let them change some of those things. It'll change their entire way of dealing with the machine and thinking about you.
  • 1:07:48: The only way we can get better at this stuff is to have a lot of things to use and to criticise

jryans avatar Sep 13 '20 14:09 jryans