Editing User interface (section)

=== 1985: SAA user interface or text-based user interface ===

In 1985, with the beginning of [[Microsoft Windows]] and other [[graphical user interface]]s, IBM created what is called the [[IBM Systems Application Architecture|Systems Application Architecture]] (SAA) standard which include the [[IBM Common User Access|Common User Access]] (CUA) derivative. CUA successfully created what we know and use today in Windows, and most of the more recent [[DOS]] or Windows Console Applications will use that standard as well.

This defined that a pulldown menu system should be at the top of the screen, status bar at the bottom, shortcut keys should stay the same for all common functionality (F2 to Open for example would work in all applications that followed the SAA standard). This greatly helped the speed at which users could learn an application so it caught on quick and became an industry standard.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Richard|first1=Stéphane|title=Text User Interface Development Series Part One – T.U.I. Basics|url=http://www.petesqbsite.com/sections/express/issue21/tuiseriespart1.htm|access-date=13 June 2014|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141116034613/http://www.petesqbsite.com/sections/express/issue21/tuiseriespart1.htm|archive-date=16 November 2014}}</ref>