27 Memory Ln.

I have found a great job (look to the right) and I have no intentions of changing it,
so this mid-2005 portfolio remains online for purely historical/nostalgic reasons.

GUIdebook – a website I’ve been working on in my spare time since 2003 – combines my interests in computer science history and Human-Computer Interaction.

Originally thought up as a comparison of various GUIs, it evolved into much more than that. GUIdebook features screenshots, icons and sounds, but also dozens

GUIdebook’s main page

of preserved archival articles, book reviews, vintage advertisements, interviews, trivia and posters I designed. I have also managed to dig out materials previously unavailable on the Internet.

The site features four thousand screenshots, includes possibly the biggest Apple Lisa section on the Internet, and... has been slashdotted 3 times already.

GUIdebook is one of my favourite projects of all time, and something that seems to be appreciated by many visitors for its informative value, visual designor simply the nostalgia factor.

The site has been updated regularely for the last two years, and I still try to keep it fresh and interesting by introducing new sections.

More websites on page

2003-present DHTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, PostgreSQL, RSS

Vista prototype at Océ Technologies

Vista is a fully functional prototype of a touch-screen device put in the coffee corner,informing passersby of the activities and profiles of their colleagues.

The whole project took 12 weeks. I’ve been working with multidisciplinary, international team of five students, using the User-Centered Development methodology.

My responsibilities included programming the Mac and PC versions of the prototype, designing the interaction and visuals, conducting user tests, writing reports, shooting and

editing the videos, and creating the website. I also had the pleasure of presenting the idea at the Design Expo panel at CHI 2005 conference in Portland.

Vista performed very well during initial user tests and the project is still worked on by our customer (Océ Technologies). More information, documents and videos are available on the Vista website.

More software on page

2004-2005 Visual C++, Objective C, Xcode, OpenGL, DHTML

Close up of one of the posters

At the beginning of 2004 I designed 14 posters to commemorate the 20th anniversary of Apple Macintosh.

In hindsight, this project was a certainty: I am a computer historian, I work as an HCI specialist, I like Macs and I do graphic design. After writing an article on Macintosh history for Polish edition of PC World, I

thought of a set of posters, each describing a different aspect of the little revolutionary machine. It took me weeks to create them, but it was a rewarding journey.

The posters’ designis supposed to mirror Apple’s early corporate identity, although each one has been prepared from scratch. My boss gave

me funds to print them and hang at our corridor (thanks, Patricia!) and at the same time I released the posters into public domain. I am still getting requests for high quality copies.