Here is a fragment of my rationale:<\/em><\/p>\n \n I was born in the decade of the 80’s.<\/p>\n At that time Graphic User Interfaces where just beginning. Apple was a pioneer on making a metaphoric system to understand how to use the personal computer and IBM with Bill Gates kept on using the command line system, (DOS Digital Operating System) which is not yet a GUI it self. Meanwhile Linux people were not thinking into a business but into a project on how to better develop software.<\/p>\n \n I have seen a very interesting evolution of the operating systems representation, and with that the born of the cell phones, the MP3 players\u00a0 and the digital cameras that started using also interesting GUI.<\/p>\n I always have a close relation with machines and computers interfaces; I love and hate them since 1989.<\/p>\n But at this point I have several questions:<\/p>\n Who is designing these interfaces? It’s not just a matter of design, there are so many things in behind:<\/p>\n The technological “evolution”, I definitely find all this things passionately interesting and it have become my motivation to specialize myself on this subject.<\/p>\n I want to study different Operating Systems GUIs working on different devices, I want to study why they are like that and what design fits better on them, I want to create a proposal of GUI that involves social subjects behind, that considers our way of understanding things, and that shows us and explains us in a more honest way the magic about computing.<\/p>\n My project will be based on:<\/p>\n FOCUS<\/strong> (an Operating System Graphic User Interface)<\/p>\n \n [\/English]<\/p>\n [Espa\u00f1ol]<\/p>\n I have started a Master at the University of Linconl in England. The Master is about Design and my specialization is on Graphical User Interfaces, my mentor will be Neil Maycroft. <\/em><\/p>\n Here is a fragment of my rationale:<\/em><\/p>\n \n I was born in the decade of the 80’s.<\/p>\n At that time Graphic User Interfaces where just beginning. Apple was a pioneer on making a metaphoric system to understand how to use the personal computer and IBM with Bill Gates kept on using the command line system, (DOS Digital Operating System) which is not yet a GUI it self. Meanwhile Linux people were not thinking into a business but into a project on how to better develop software.<\/p>\n \n I have seen a very interesting evolution of the operating systems representation, and with that the born of the cell phones, the MP3 players\u00a0 and the digital cameras that started using also interesting GUI.<\/p>\n I always have a close relation with machines and computers interfaces; I love and hate them since 1989.<\/p>\n But at this point I have several questions:<\/p>\n Who is designing these interfaces? It’s not just a matter of design, there are so many things in behind:<\/p>\n The technological “evolution”, I definitely find all this things passionately interesting and it have become my motivation to specialize myself on this subject.<\/p>\n I want to study different Operating Systems GUIs working on different devices, I want to study why they are like that and what design fits better on them, I want to create a proposal of GUI that involves social subjects behind, that considers our way of understanding things, and that shows us and explains us in a more honest way the magic about computing.<\/p>\n My project will be based on:<\/p>\n FOCUS<\/strong> (an Operating System Graphic User Interface)<\/p>\n [\/Espa\u00f1ol]<\/p>\n [Catalan]<\/p>\n I have started a Master at the University of Linconl in England. The Master is about Design and my specialization is on Graphical User Interfaces, my mentor will be Neil Maycroft. <\/em><\/p>\n Here is a fragment of my rationale:<\/em><\/p>\n \n I was born in the decade of the 80’s.<\/p>\n At that time Graphic User Interfaces where just beginning. Apple was a pioneer on making a metaphoric system to understand how to use the personal computer and IBM with Bill Gates kept on using the command line system, (DOS Digital Operating System) which is not yet a GUI it self. Meanwhile Linux people were not thinking into a business but into a project on how to better develop software.<\/p>\n \n I have seen a very interesting evolution of the operating systems representation, and with that the born of the cell phones, the MP3 players\u00a0 and the digital cameras that started using also interesting GUI.<\/p>\n I always have a close relation with machines and computers interfaces; I love and hate them since 1989.<\/p>\n But at this point I have several questions:<\/p>\n Who is designing these interfaces? It’s not just a matter of design, there are so many things in behind:<\/p>\n The technological “evolution”, I definitely find all this things passionately interesting and it have become my motivation to specialize myself on this subject.<\/p>\n I want to study different Operating Systems GUIs working on different devices, I want to study why they are like that and what design fits better on them, I want to create a proposal of GUI that involves social subjects behind, that considers our way of understanding things, and that shows us and explains us in a more honest way the magic about computing.<\/p>\n My project will be based on:<\/p>\n![\"focus,](\"http:\/\/blog.quelic.net\/files\/2007\/10\/flowroot3246.png\" "\\"How")
<\/a><\/dt>\n<\/pre>\n<\/a><\/p>\n
\nAre they explaining or hiding how things work?
\nCan we make them better, more efficient or maybe even more poetic?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n
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\nThe target of users and their semiotic code; how people understand the machines.
\nEconomy is also influencing the GUIs as long as they become a very powerful tool to guide users into different paths and behaviours.<\/p>\n\n
<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/dt>\n<\/pre>\n<\/a><\/p>\n
\nAre they explaining or hiding how things work?
\nCan we make them better, more efficient or maybe even more poetic?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n
<\/a><\/dt>\n<\/h5>\n
\nThe target of users and their semiotic code; how people understand the machines.
\nEconomy is also influencing the GUIs as long as they become a very powerful tool to guide users into different paths and behaviours.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n\n
<\/a><\/dt>\n<\/pre>\n<\/a><\/p>\n
\nAre they explaining or hiding how things work?
\nCan we make them better, more efficient or maybe even more poetic?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n
<\/a><\/dt>\n<\/h5>\n
\nThe target of users and their semiotic code; how people understand the machines.
\nEconomy is also influencing the GUIs as long as they become a very powerful tool to guide users into different paths and behaviours.<\/p>\n