Marcin Wichary at Unsung: I’ve been emulating the Apple Lisa recently, and I was struck by how many of its UI strings were slightly or wholly different than what we’re used to. It makes sense. Lisa came out in 1983 as Mac’s predecessor and really the first GUI that is directly linked to what we’re using today. Even though it borrowed things from work done at Xerox, tons of conventions were not established yet. So, I thought it would be fun to actually take a closer look. What follows is an in-depth look at the writing across the Lisa’s operating system. It’s clear it was designed at a time when everyone was still figuring out how to communicate what would happen when a user performed certain actions. This is my favorite example from Marcin’s wonderful post:
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