Came across this video while doomscrolling on youtube.

I ended up down a massive rabbit hole watching this historical lecture by Larry Tesler (the literal inventor of cut/copy/paste) and Chris Espinosa from 1997. It breaks down the rational engineering and design reasoning behind the everyday shortcuts we use without thinking—like why Cmd + X , Cmd + C , Cmd + V , and Cmd + Z are right next to each other on the keyboard ( 39:23 ). Honestly, every designer should watch this . It completely changes how you look at the foundations of the graphical user interfaces (GUI) we work with every day ( 1:27:22 )