The Most Important UI Design Breakthrough Happened in 1965 — and You’ve Never Heard of It
In 1965, an IBM engineer used a mainframe to draw a scatter plot on a CRT screen. That moment — not the iPhone, not the Mac — is the true birth of modern UI and data visualization. We treat design as a recent invention, but the core human-computer interaction leap was solved 60 years ago. Today’s sleek interfaces are just miniaturized echoes of that breakthrough.