Timm and Frank from RAUREIF in Berlin are our first guest tutors of 2010, teaching us the beauty of Graphical User Interface! In the first day we looked at the ‘desktop as a metaphor’ and how it all came to be around 25 years ago. Looking at my Apple desktop now, its easy to take for granted all the graphical elements that come into play and the journey of their development from the first personal computers all those years ago. I would highly recommend the 3 part docu-film ‘Triumph of the Nerds’ illustrating the history of the personal computer, including interviews with Bill Gates and Steve Jobs fighting it out. The film ends around 1995 when Apple were in trouble with declining sales and Microsoft were on top! Obviously a lot can happen in 15 years!

Looking forward to this course, and can only aspire to create interfaces as beautiful as my wee macbook here in front of me!! ( Despite the large melted spot on the case from Christmas candle incident)!