Historical perspectives
- Designing Interactions by Bill Moggridge. Beautifully-designed book which tells the story of interaction design through numerous interviews with key people. MIT Press 2007.
- Folklore Stories and anecdotes on the development of the Mac
- Jeremy Norman's History of Information - Historical examples of maps, documents and much else.
Documentaries
General Magic the Movie (2018). Dirs. Sarah Kerruish & Matt Maude "The ideas that dominate the tech industry and our day to day lives were born at a secretive Silicon Valley start-up called ‘General Magic’, which spun out of Apple in 1990 to create the “next big thing”. General Magic shipped the first handheld personal communicator (or “smartphone”) in 1994. The film combines rare archival footage with powerful honesty from the “Magicians” today, reflecting on the most influential Silicon Valley company no one has ever heard of.
Featuring legendary members of the original Macintosh team, along with the creators of the iPod, iPhone, Android, and eBay, this is the story of one of history’s most talented tech teams, who after a great failure, went on to change the lives of billions."
The Augumentation of Douglas Engelbart 2018. Dir Daniel Silveira "A film on Douglas Engelbart, inventor of the computer mouse whose vision was to augment the collective IQ of humans using the computer as a tool to accomplish this."
Objectified 2009. Dir. Gary Hustwit "A feature-length documentary about our complex relationship with manufactured objects and, by extension, the people who design them."
Essays
- As We May Think Vannevar Bush, 1945.
- Designing the Star User Interface David Canfield Smith, Charles Irby, Ralph Kimball and Bill Verplank, Byte Magazine Issue 4, 1982, pp. 242-282
- Predicting the Future Alan C. Kay, Stanford Engineering 1:4, Autumn 1989 p. 1-6.
Interactive artifacts over time
- Classic HCI Demos - Jack Rusher's collection of HCI demo videos from 1983-2002.
- Buxton Collection
- GUIdebook - GUIs over the years, curated by Marcin Wichary
- Interaction Museum - Collection of interaction techniques
- Museum of UI - Windows 3.11, 2.03, 1.01, Norton Commander and MS-DOS
- GUI Gallery - Variety of operating system UIs