HyperCard and Macromedia Director remain the gold standard for this sort of visual-interactive design. It was all so early and new and ubiquitous that we never realized how special it was.
Iterating on this in a modern way remains TODO. As John Henry and his counterpart note in that video, the beauty of those tools was that people who didn’t care about code were able to create interactive experiences.
The whole “everyone learn to code or you’ll be poor” thing of the past 10 years has been a huge and unnecessary distraction.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TqISbaJ7qug
Iterating on this in a modern way remains TODO. As John Henry and his counterpart note in that video, the beauty of those tools was that people who didn’t care about code were able to create interactive experiences.
The whole “everyone learn to code or you’ll be poor” thing of the past 10 years has been a huge and unnecessary distraction.