Common User Access: Difference between revisions

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Common User Access (CUA) was introduced by IBM in 1987 as part of their Systems Application Architecture (SAA).

SC26-4351-00: Common User Access: Panel Design and User Interaction, 1987.
SC26-4582-00: Common User Access: Advanced Interface Design Guide, 1990.
SC26-4583-00: Common User Access: Basic Interface Design Guide, 1992. (F29BDG00)
SC34-4289-00: Common User Access: Guide to User Interface Design, 1991.
SC34-4290-00: Common User Access: Advanced Interface Design Reference, 1991.

SC34-4399-00: Object-Oriented Interface Design (F29AL000, PDF)
- First Edition (Dec 1992)
- This edition replaces and makes obsolete SC34−4289−00 and SC34−4290−00

IBM Corp.: Object-Oriented Interface Design: IBM Common User Access Guidelines - ISBN 1-56529-170-0

"Common User Access – A consistent and usable human-computer interface for the SAA environments" by Richard E. Berry, 1988. [1]
"The evolution of the Common User Access Workplace Model" by Richard E. Berry, Cliff J. Reeves, IBM Systems Journal, Volume 31, Nº 3, 1992. [2]
"The designer's model of the CUA workplace" by Richard E. Berry, IBM Systems Journal, Volume 31, Nº 3, 1992. [3]
"The rise and fall of the standard user interface. IBM's SAA and CUA brought harmony to software design… until everyone forgot" by Liam Proven, The Register, Wed 24 Jan 2024 [4]

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 * "The evolution of the Common User Access Workplace Model" by Richard E. Berry, Cliff J. Reeves, IBM Systems Journal, Volume 31, Nº 3, 1992. [https://web.archive.org/web/20070927082814/http://www.research.ibm.com/journal/sj/313/ibmsj3103C.pdf]
 * "The designer's model of the CUA workplace" by Richard E. Berry, IBM Systems Journal, Volume 31, Nº 3, 1992. [https://web.archive.org/web/20050530074909/http://www.research.ibm.com/journal/sj/313/ibmsj3103D.pdf]
+* "The rise and fall of the standard user interface. IBM's SAA and CUA brought harmony to software design… until everyone forgot" by Liam Proven, The Register, Wed 24 Jan 2024  [https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/24/rise_and_fall_of_cua/]
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