Bill Atkinson, Apple Pioneer Behind Graphical Interfaces, Dies at 74
Bill Atkinson, a pioneering software designer at Apple Computer, who made personal computers easier to use by creating graphical user interface (GUI) tools such as QuickDraw, pull-down menus, and popularizing the double-click gesture, has passed away at 74. He died of pancreatic cancer on June 5, 2025, at his home in Portola Valley, California. His innovations helped lay the foundation for user-friendly computing as we know it today.
Bill Atkinson, a foundational figure in Apple’s early computing era, passed away on June 5, 2025. He created QuickDraw, the graphics engine behind Apple Lisa and Macintosh. His contributions revolutionized graphical user interfaces and shaped modern computing. His death marks the loss of one of the last surviving architects of the original Macintosh design team.
QuickDraw: A software library that allowed for the fast and efficient display of shapes, text, and images.
Graphical User Interface (GUI)
Invented/Popularized
Apple Lisa (1983)
Macintosh (1984)
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