When Apple introduced the Macintosh in 1984, it was the dawn of an era. Personal computing was ascendant. The World Wide Web was on its way. Screens would soon begin to take over people’s lives — an early precursor to the always-on, Zoom-to-Zoom world we’re living in today.

When Loretta Staples became a user interface designer in the ’80s, the field was just opening up. “You had to put stuff together and fashion your own tools and ways of making things,” she said.

Read her story. Know her place.