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This site is being created by Tony Temple and Dick Berry. Together we have over 80 years of design and development experience in the computer industry. Over the last decade we focused on developing new design approaches, methods, and tools that enable developers to better meet customer and user needs, as well as achieve their own success measures. We discovered that little is unique to the computer industry. Our design approach applies equally well to all types of organizations, including those involved in business, education, and government, and to the creation of services as well as products.
We have a great deal of experience in directing teams, providing critical reviews, teaching, and giving presentations. We have given presentations to large corporations and at many industry conferences. We also created our own conference which we conducted for ten years in the U.S. and expanded to Japan in later years.
Tony Temple
Tony is an IBM Fellow Emeritus and
former VP Ease of Use for IBM. His career at IBM spanned 44-years prior to
his retirement in 2006. Tony began his career as a System Engineer
in the banking industry in IBM UK. Through the 1960s and early 1970s he
established time sharing, remote computing services, and the Warwick
International Development Center. He developed the Application System and the
4th generation object-oriented language ASL. In the 1980s he directed the
product development center in Warwick, producing IBM Decision Support and
Management Science software, and he evolved the Application System into an IBM
Program Product.
In 1988 he led the design team that created the first object-oriented user architecture for office systems and desktops. This work defined core aspects of the user interfaces for Windows and OS/2, many of which are still in use in current desktop designs.
Tony was one of the first appointments to the IBM Academy of Technology in 1989. He was also Director of the Warwick & Dublin development labs and continued to have a major influence on the evolution of object-oriented programming.
In 1993 he led the user experience effort for IBM's Personal Computers and client-based software through the definition of user interface architectures such as 3D desktops, user components, user-centric technologies, and tools.
From the late 1990s until he retired, Tony used his executive position to drive improvements in and adoption of advanced design practices throughout IBM and the industry. He created the annual Make IT Easy Conference and led the development of a rigorous methodology to ensure that stakeholders' goals were identified and achieved through design.
Throughout his career at IBM Tony demonstrated a passion for serving customers and using advancements in technology to help distinguish his design solutions. He not only sets strategic directions and motivates teams, but he also participates toe-to-toe in the technical design. The breadth and depth of his knowledge and expertise in his field are unparalleled.
Dick Berry
Dick is an IBM Distinguished
Engineer, Emeritus and elected member of the IBM Academy of Technology. He
is also the former Director of Design Methods at IBM.
Over his 38 years with IBM, Dick has been a technical leader, manager, and
innovator. He holds more than 65 U.S. patents.
He began his career in 1968, serving banking, government, and mid-market customers in an IBM Branch Office. He subsequently moved into design and development where he was architect, chief programmer, and later manager of a development team for the IBM 3650 Retail Store System, the first IBM retail system.
In 1978, he was lead architect for the convergence of word-processing and file-processing on the IBM 5520 Administrative System, and he was Architecture Manager for several follow-on releases.
Dick helped establish the User Interface Architecture in 1982 and he led the screen and windowing design through the early work with Microsoft (circa Windows 2.0) and initial development of OS/2. Many elements of his design -- including the way windows are moved, sized, minimized, maximized, and restored -- are still in popular use.
In 1990, Dick and Tony Temple led a team that designed the object-oriented desktop that was eventually adopted as OS/2 Warp and Windows 95. This desktop paradigm with ubiquitous drag-drop and pop-up context menus remains a standard desktop today.
Since that time Dick has advanced user experience research and design, out-of-box experience, personal computer desktop features, and three-dimensional interfaces. He was a founding member of the PC Quality/Ease of Use Roundtable, a cross-industry group seeking to improve ease of use throughout the PC industry.
For over a decade he has focused on design approaches, methods, and tools. He pioneered the adoption of formal models for user research and user concepts, and he developed extensions to the Unified Modeling Language (UML). His goal is for software developers to adopt a rigorous, automated, tool-based system design approach that produces clear and coherent user conceptual models as "blueprint-like" specifications for implementation.
Dick has been a significant driver in moving design teams in this direction. He is a meticulous thinker and is organized and thorough in addressing any issue or problem. His productivity in generating patents is a testament to his creativity as are elements of the current operating systems that we take for granted. His entire career illustrates his commitment to innovation that matters.