Contextual UI.
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Discovering The Modern Day UI
Working at one of the leading drawing software companies of the late 20th century gave me early exposure to ideas that are now standard. In 1997, after observing users constantly move away from the canvas to access tools, I asked: what if the UI came to them? That insight led to the creation of contextual controls—a now-common UI pattern I first envisioned decades ago.