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ViperCard – An open source re-creation and re-imagination of HyperCard

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Post by zitterbewegung »

I wonder how much material design is influenced by Hypercard. I know the web was partially inspired but it looks like with material design the language is sort of extended. Or maybe it was all integrated into the design language for the web.

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Post by Karunamon »

zitterbewegung wrote: post #2

I wonder how much material design is influenced by Hypercard. I know the web was partially inspired but it looks like with material design the language is sort of extended. Or maybe it was all integrated into the design language for the web.

What I find amazing is that early B&W GUIs were more usable than modern material design. Most takes on Material that I’ve seen take poor use of screen real-estate, poor conveyance, and distracting/hard-to-read color choices to an art form.

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Post by dman »

Karunamon wrote: post #3
zitterbewegung wrote: post #2

I wonder how much material design is influenced by Hypercard. I know the web was partially inspired but it looks like with material design the language is sort of extended. Or maybe it was all integrated into the design language for the web.

What I find amazing is that early B&W GUIs were more usable than modern material design. Most takes on Material that I’ve seen take poor use of screen real-estate, poor conveyance, and distracting/hard-to-read color choices to an art form.

In case some UX / HCI experts read this thread, are there any credible studies of information density in user interfaces plotted over time?

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Post by notthegov »

I used to make Hypercard stacks back in 7th grade when I was learning from Quantum Link (Q-Link) hackers like Mobeius from the Pan-American Information Network (#hellonearth).

And AOL hackers and soical engineers like HappyHardcore, creator of AOL4Free & the Master Blaster, the famous Da Chronic, creator of AOHell and KT (Shameer) who first taught me social engineering in 1995-

http://www.stepbystep.com/America-Onlines-Dark-Side-131812/

Koceilah Rekouche aka Chron, photo from the 1990s-

https://www.flickr.com/photos/captivating/3816111466/

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Post by moltensyntax »

meatsock wrote: post #4

this is great, but how do i hit option on an android to draw multiple?

The UI was so mouse-centric that I haven't tried it much on mobile. If the menus work ok on mobile, it might make sense for "draw multiple" to be switched on in the menu like the way "draw wider lines" is now.
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