Bill Atkinson: Polaroids Showing the Evolution of the Lisa GUI [video]

This stuff is why I am so cynical about modern software development management. Bill Atkinson wrote QuickDraw, a masterpiece of low level programming, but also had a very solid grasp about what it was for right down to the UX it was to enable, and as shown here how the UX evolved with user testing. These days the idea someone can span that range is seen as an impossibility.

Yeah, it was an amazing team, and it's well-worth reviewing the stories at Folklore.org --- a good starting point is this retrospective:

https://www.folklore.org/Joining_Apple_Computer.html

He also wrote Hypercard, and I'd really like to see a modern successor which had the attributes:

- stand-alone desktop app (and/or app for iPad on app store)

- simple syntax (block diagramming like Scratch/Blockly seems a natural fit)

- simple creation/arrangement of standard GUI elements (so that localization and accessibility still work)

- being opensource (still feeling burned by having donated to Runtime Revolution/Livecode's opensource effort)

(so basically a modern, opensource alternative to VisualBasic, and yes, I keep asking about this --- there are lots of programs in this space, but none are quite as easy/simple as to have gotten me past the hurdle of download/install/actually try making something/being successful at it, and I freely admit I'm a mediocre programmer with not enough time who is bogged down on his current project....)