Jef Raskin
Jef Raskin
Jef Raskinwas an American human–computer interface expert best known for conceiving and starting the Macintosh project for Apple in the late 1970s...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth9 March 1943
CountryUnited States of America
today would-be computer
If I had not studied music, there would be no Macintosh computers today.
loyal population use
If I am correct, the use of a product based on modelessness and monoty would soon become so habitual as to be nearly addictive, leading to a user population devoted to and loyal to the product.
decision tasks attention
When you have to choose among methods, your locus of attention is drawn from the task and temporarily becomes the decision itself.
jobs hate ideas
I hate mice. The mouse involves you in arm motions that slow you down. I didn't want it on the Macintosh, but Jobs insisted. In those days, what he said went, good idea or not.
confusion design mind
I am confident that we can do better than GUIs because the basic problem with them (and with the Linux and Unix interfaces) is that they ask a human being to do things that we know experimentally humans cannot do well. The question I asked myself is, given everything we know about how the human mind works, could we design a computer and computer software so that we can work with the least confusion and greatest efficiency?
educational design user-experience
As far as the customer is concerned, the interface is the product.