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Windows 95's Start menu was invented by a chimpanzee-lab psychologist: 'Even a rocket scientist couldn't figure out Windows' (www.windowslatest.com)
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Former Microsoft exec explain how a behavioral psychologist utilized Fitts's law to place the Windows 95 Start button in the bottom-left.

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[–] 2 points 1 month ago

oh. and NeXTSTEP's came out in '88...

And the apple menu was already in the top left before windows 95.

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