Operating System interface design from 1981 to 2009

Written on 27th April 2009                                                                                                              5 COMMENTS
Zee, Editor in Chief at The Next Web, Principal at WeDoCreative.

The guys at Web Designer Depot put together a list of screenshots from various Operating Systems dating back nearly 30 years. If you haven’t had a browse already ensure you do, otherwise have a skim of our selection below including the latest Windows 7 release.

Xerox 8010 Star (released in 1981)

Apple Lisa Office System 1 (released in 1983)

Windows 2.0x (released in 1987)

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Apple, design, Linux, mac, Operating system, osx, UI, Windows

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First Shots of the UI for Google Chrome for the Mac. Already looks better than on Windows.

Written on 13th February 2009                                                                                                              6 COMMENTS
Zee, Editor in Chief at The Next Web, Principal at WeDoCreative.

Mike Pinkerton, the man behind the excellent Camino web browser for the Mac is also the man behind the Mac release of Google Chrome.

On his blog, he made available the first shot of the UI for the Mac release of the Google browser, and although it’s very basic – we’re already excited.

The shot below is actually of the first time he ran Chrome and loaded a webpage. 

Pinkerton points out, one of the major hurdles behind the Mac version of Chrome is allowing for individual tabs to crash yet the entire browser to keep on running. Webkit, the engine behind the browser simply doesn’t run that way which has meant a large amount of time devoted to figuring that out.

Below is another (just) released shot of the browser which appears whenever a page isn’t able to load.

chrome, google, mac, UI

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WordPress’ Write panel throughout the years

Written on 17th December 2008                                                                                                              5 COMMENTS
Ernst-Jan Pfauth, editor in chief

Ozh, “a 36.736 years old dude living in France”, made the effort of collecting screen shots of all the Wordpress’ back ends we’ve seen in the last five years. From Wordpress 0.7.1 (May 2003) to WordPress 2.7.

Ozh jumped in the Wordpress game when version 1.0.1 showed up, so I guess it’s safe to say he’s a true expert. Thus make sure to check out his post, as he wrote down some witty comments.

Here’s a Flickr slideshow with the screenshots. See it grow man!

Hat tip: Blog Herald

interface, UI, wordpress

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After a sneak peak of five weeks, the new Flickr homepage launches

Written on 16th October 2008                                                                                                              2 COMMENTS
Ernst-Jan Pfauth, editor in chief

Five weeks ago I wrote about the home improvement going on at Flickr HQ. The Yahoo-owned photo service presented the design in a sneak peak fashion. After clicking on a button on the homepage, going through the Flickr balloons and a MIDI version of Sinatra’s Strangers in the Night, the new homepage appeared.

Those of the 31 million Flickr members who could resist the temptation of clicking on the “Psssssst! Want a sneak peak at your new homepage?” will now see the new homepage as well.

Flickr wanted to show its users more of the social interaction of the service, hence the homepage now consists of all kinds of “check out these things in your social circle” elements. The page shows more pictures from your contacts, introduces the latest pics from your groups, and pushes the blog plus your personal stats to the front.

Check out the announcement on Flickr and don’t forget to watch the fancy screencast.

flickr, redesign, UI, yahoo

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