Meanwhile, its attempts to market a computer flopped. Now, after a long, quiet period, the legendary Xerox Parc is again in a position to shape the future of computing, some observers say. The new generation of researchers is doing innovative work on the foundation of the original founders of Parc. You can't find things. Those GUIs wimp out against huge, complex data hierarchies such as the World Wide Web, Xerox Parc says.
Wide widgets borrow from techniques in science and modeling.
Documents on a network are also big and fast and hard to understand. Xerox Parc still sounds the mantra of usability and simplicity, as it did 25 years ago when it brought together the WIMP components. Tools such as the hyperbolic browser leverage the senses, he says. At Xerox Parc, inventing tools to aid usability isn't just an exercise in computer science. We've learned from business process re-engineering that descriptions of how work gets done are almost always dead wrong.