Post by @thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io

Thomas Fuchs

@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io 4 hours ago

It's kind of crazy that back in the day to make these cover photos they had to actually cut off someone's hand

Cover of "Macintosh Human Interface Guidelines", there's a Mac desktop visible on the book with one of things a disembodied hand that grabs onto a copy of the book in a "infinite covers" joke design

dan 💾

@billgoats@bitbang.social 2 hours ago

@thomasfuchs Even crazier that there were human interface guidelines to follow!

Thomas Fuchs

@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io 2 hours ago

@billgoats ikr

Ken McLeod

@_the_cloud@mastodon.social 1 hour ago

@thomasfuchs @billgoats Before there were "Macintosh Human Interface Guidelines," there were just "Apple Human Interface Guidelines." Maybe you had an Apple II instead of a Mac? The point was that you didn't have to stay within the lines, as the cover art showed.

Cover of the 1987 book "Apple Human Interface Guidelines: The Apple Desktop Interface." Its cover art features a hand moving a mouse on top of a MacDraw window. The hand appears to be drawn in pencil, with a flesh-colored overlay on top that's awkwardly offset and doesn't align with the pencil outline.

Carlos Sierra

@csierrandres@mastodon.social 4 hours ago

@thomasfuchs uncle thing cameo

Carsten Franke

@carstenfranke@mastodon.social 4 hours ago

@thomasfuchs just cutting one hand off? that was easy in the good old days, now we have to burn down the planet to have "AI" make that photo.

David Raygoza Gómez

@hashraydamon@me.dm 4 hours ago

@thomasfuchs reganomics