The discipline of UX design includes both: previous knowledge and practice with its rules and ways of doing things (rules of design) and the new modern, improved ways of making web responsive and device independent. Please check out the video by UXPin on the history of UX, in case when you are one of the people who prefer watching to reading 🙂
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lI1ROgrk6XI
User Experience on the display is mostly associated with the successful corporations as Toyota, Xerox, IBM, Apple Macintosh, who started the new Iphone and mobile revolution. Steve Jobs in 1983 was talking about how at that time 36 y.o. computers will completely change and maybe take over the human life; people were not much likely to believe it, however, today we can see that his predictions are clearly up and running, and today’s websites are exciting and pleasant, stylish and educational, with the comfortable level of usability.
I will be posting more of the interesting facts on UX design history and hoe did it evolve in the recent years. Also I would post on the future predictions of UX design.