By Ina Fried, 27 March 2009 15:26
In a presentation at last week's Mix 09 event in Las Vegas, Microsoft designer Stephan Hoefnagels traced the evolution of the company's new Windows 7 operating system.
"This was a pretty wacky brainstorm that we had early on," Hoefnagels told the crowd. But, he said, it wasn't just a bunch of designers going crazy. Even these early sketches represented a collaboration across the technical and design ranks. "In this brainstorm for instance, all the disciplines were involved...developers, program management, user research. Everybody was coming up with these crazy ideas."
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1. Nick Cole
Windows 2.x introduced overlapping windows, not 3.x.
I remember running windows 2.11 /286 on my Dad's PS/2 Model 50z. This was the special version optimised for the new 286 processor :-)
2. Karen Challinor
"We would sketch on anything available," Hoefnagels said.
no surprise there, some of the most innovative designs in computer science were first scribbled on split beermats and cigarette packets in the pub over the road from the university, and I'm talking about professors not students
ok there were a few turkeys too but never underestimate the inspirational power of beer when brainstorming