Betsy LangowskiI’m looking through my Macintosh user guide (the booklet that accompanied my 1984 Macintosh) for the first time in a while, and I’m a little obsessed with this graphic explaining scrolling.
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kira for scale@Cdespinosa @superbetsy was that one of your contributions?
@kirakira @superbetsy Carol Kaehler wrote the copy, Ellen Romano drew the art, Pam Stanton-Wyman was the print production lead, and of course everybody contributed… but that started from a sketch of mine in the User Interface Guidelines.
It wasn’t an original idea. “Scroll” was a metaphor, just like “window” and “desktop.” While metaphors are supposed to map known experiences onto new ones, most people had no physical experience with an actual scroll, so we had to illustrate it.
Scott Jann@Cdespinosa @kirakira @superbetsy I never really “got” it until I saw a model at a (the?) Dead Sea Scrolls exhibit about 15 years ago, I think I said “so that’s why they call them scroll bars” aloud