Let’s talk about design in Software Update… This is SU in Mac OS X Tiger. It was a delight to use.

It was simple and clean in the sense that it was as Albert Einstein once said: “Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.”

The UI & UX of SU these days is cheap design. It’s “clean” & “simple” in the sense most UI is removed. There’s no thought behind it other than to show as much white background as possible.

Real design is purposeful & deliberate.

And it worked.

Did you know Monopoly was invented by a woman named Elizabeth Magie in 1903?

Originally ‘The Landlord’s Game,’ it was designed as a protest against the big monopolists like Carnegie & Rockefeller.

But it was Charles Darrow, an unemployed salesman, who eventually sold it to Parker Brothers after playing a version.

Parker Brothers credited Monopoly with saving their company. Magie died in 1948 without recognition. Darrow became very wealthy & his legend lives on. #history

Here's my pitch

You know how some websites have a little progress bar highlight across the top of the page to show how much of the page you've read?

Imagine a similar tool that shows you how much of the page is in view and how much remains, but persistently visible on every window on your computer, along the right side, integrated into a user interface tool that's wide enough that you can click on it, and not a moving target that disappears sometimes

I call it the "scroll bar"