A horrid UI in the best OS of all time

A little chronicle of the origin of a revolutionary idea called UX.

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In 1981, before the development of what we call today as user experience design or usability — not to mention the graphic user interface — a Psychology professor from the University of California, San Diego with a little background in electrical engineering, wrote an article for a…