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A renowned Apple engineer who was instrumental in developing modern-day computing has died. Bill Atkinson, who was part of Apple's original
Macintosh development team, died of pancreatic cancer at 74, according
to a Facebook post made by his family on June 5.
His contributions to Apple and the Macintosh personal computer are still widely used today, including fundamental UI elements like the menu bar, double-clicking and the selection lasso. However, Atkinson's work goes
much deeper than that, since he's partly responsible for the
foundational design language that influenced Apple's early days. His
legacy includes creating MacPaint, an application that showed the world
what a graphics-based system looks like at a time when text-based
systems were the norm, and developing QuickDraw, a graphics toolbox that
the Macintosh and Lisa computers use. To make computers more user-
friendly, Atkinson also designed HyperCard, an Apple application that introduced hypertext to everyday users and not just programmers. Tim
Cook paid tribute to Atkinson, posting on X, that he was a “true
visionary whose creativity, heart, and groundbreaking work on the Mac
will forever inspire us.”
A renowned Apple engineer who was instrumental in developing modern-day >computing has died. Bill Atkinson, who was part of Apple's original
Macintosh development team, died of pancreatic cancer at 74, according
to a Facebook post made by his family on June 5.
His contributions to Apple and the Macintosh personal computer are still >widely used today, including fundamental UI elements like the menu bar, >double-clicking and the selection lasso. However, Atkinson's work goes
much deeper than that, since he's partly responsible for the
foundational design language that influenced Apple's early days. His
legacy includes creating MacPaint, an application that showed the world
what a graphics-based system looks like at a time when text-based
systems were the norm, and developing QuickDraw, a graphics toolbox that
the Macintosh and Lisa computers use. To make computers more
user-friendly, Atkinson also designed HyperCard, an Apple application
that introduced hypertext to everyday users and not just programmers.
Tim Cook paid tribute to Atkinson, posting on X, that he was a “true >visionary whose creativity, heart, and groundbreaking work on the Mac
will forever inspire us.”
<https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/influential-apple-engineer-bill-atkinson-dies-at-74/ar-AA1GjQcX>Very sad. I still treasure the User Interface Guidelines written by him and his team in the 1980s, and wish Apple adhered to them today.
A renowned Apple engineer who was instrumental in developing modern-day computing has died. Bill Atkinson, who was part of Apple's original
Macintosh development team, died of pancreatic cancer at 74, according
to a Facebook post made by his family on June 5.
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