Apple’s New Software Focuses on Design Aesthetics Over A.I.; Bill Atkinson, Who Made Computers Easier to Use, Is Dead at 74

 Apple’s New Software Focuses on Design Aesthetics Over A.I.
The company also introduced artificial intelligence in its devices in the opening presentation of a company conference.

Bill Atkinson, Who Made Computers Easier to Use, Is Dead at 74
A designer for Apple, he created software that made it possible to display shapes, images and text on the screen and present a simulated “desktop.” 

Bill Atkinson in 1987. Among other things, he is credited with inventing computer screen “pull down” menus and the “double-click” gesture of a mouse.Credit...Michel Baret/Gamma-Rapho, via Getty