Aaron Marcus (born 22 May 1943) is an American user-interface and information-visualization designer, and a computer graphics artist.

In secondary school he studied both science and art, and was editor of his high-school newspaper.

[2] He obtained BFA and MFA in 1968 at Yale University School of Art and Architecture.

[citation needed] In 1967, Marcus spent a summer making ASCII art as a researcher at AT&T’s Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey.

[citation needed] From 1968 to 1977, Marcus taught at Princeton University in the School of Architecture and Urban Planning and in the Visual Arts Program.