Erin – I really enjoy your lectures on the history of interaction design! And the visual syllabus is very inspiring!

Regarding your community request: my colleague Frank Rausch and I wrote a fairly long essay on historic user interfaces. We explicitly tried to identify the person behind the design – which was often surprisingly difficult.

Anyway – you might find this interesting:

https://medium.com/@borism/menus-metaphors-and-materials-milestones-of-user-interface-design-f3f75481c46c