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| | Jef Raskin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Jef Raskin (March 9, 1943–February 26, 2005) was an American human-computer interface expert best-known for starting the Macintosh project for Apple Computer in the late 1970s. | | | In the same period Raskin accepted an appointment as Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at the University of Chicago's Computer Science Department and, with Leo Irakliotis started designing a new curriculum on humane interfaces and computer enterprises. | | | Raskin also claims to have had continued direct input into the eventual Mac design, including the decision to use a one-button mouse as part of the Apple interface, a departure from the Xerox PARC standard of a three-button mouse. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jef_Raskin
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| | The New York Times > Business > Jef Raskin, 61, Developer of Apple Macintosh, Is Dead |
| | Raskin pioneered the use of the word "font" to refer to digital typefaces, and was among the creators of the "click and drag" method of manipulating icons on a computer screen, according to a statement released by his family. | | | Raskin advocated forcefully for the company to develop a computer that was easy for people to use, and he headed the Macintosh project starting in 1979. | | | Raskin was working on Archy, a computer program that performed common tasks like word processing. |
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http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/28/business/28raskin.html?ex=1267333200&en=a562f3db6526c3fa&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland
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| | Independent, The (London): Obituary: Jef Raskin |
| | JEF RASKIN earned a place in computer history as the originator of the Macintosh computer, launched by the Apple Computer Corporation in 1984. | | | Raskin particularly objected to the use of a mouse, which he considered inefficient. | | | Following Raskin's departure from Apple Computer, which left him comfortably off from the sale of stock, the remainder of his career was divided between entrepreneurial activities, user interface research and evangelising, writing, teaching, and music. |
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http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_20050317/ai_n13256233
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| | TaskZ.com Jef Raskin |
| | Jef Raskin is best known for having created the Macintosh at Apple and for his recent book, "The Humane Interface." A prolific writer and researcher with hundreds of articles in print, he has consulted on interface and system design for dozens of companies, from startups to multinationals, around the world. |
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http://www.taskz.com/jef_raskin.php
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| | Jef Raskin, Mac pioneer, dies at 61 Tech News on ZDNet |
| | Raskin earned bachelor's degrees in mathematics and philosophy from the State University of New York and a master's degree in computer science from the Pennsylvania State University. | | | Raskin was an assistant professor at the University of California, San Diego, and a visiting scholar at the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory in the 1970s when he first visited Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center, or PARC. | | | Jef Raskin, the computer interface expert who launched the Macintosh project for Apple Computer, died Saturday at age 61. |
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http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1040_22-5591858.html
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| | Jef Raskin - Curriculum Vitae |
| | Raskin was studying for Ph.D. in Philosophy, but switched to computer science. | | | Raskin's thesis was "A Hardware-Independent Computer Graphics System." The practical system developed as part of the thesis was still in use in 1979, and formed the basis of the DISPLAA system sold to a San Diego company in 1979. | | | Raskin specialized in electronic and computer music, but interrupted his graduate studies to join the faculty. |
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http://jef.raskincenter.org/home/curriculum_vitae.html
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| | Apple Macintosh Innovator Jef Raskin Dies, Aged 61. |
| | Raskin, however, saw the opportunity to explore the relationship between computers and the mind, between the left and right side of the brain. | | | Macintosh project that generated the first seismic shifts of the computing world. | | | After barraging colleagues with memos about how computers should actually be easy to use, Raskin was allowed to make his rants a reality in 1979. |
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http://www.laptopical.com/jef-raskin-07351.html
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| | Jef Raskin: "Little Difference Between Using a Mac and Windows" The Mac Observer |
| | Raskin is not merely saying that the user interface of computers should be farther along today, nor that computers should be self-diagnosing and self-maintaining today. | | | Raskin is right in that the computer, even with the most modern OS, is not a seemless experience, but requires a whole host of specific knowledge and paradigms to deal with it: the mouse, the dock, Mail, are all paradigms that require a abstract way of thinking. | | | Jef Raskin is as rascally today as he was more than 20 years ago when he fought to get his idea for a new computer through Apple's management. |
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http://www.macobserver.com/article/2004/10/21.7.shtml
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| | Jef Raskin, creator of the Macintosh, has died. MetaFilter |
| | Jef's contributions to the development of simple, intelligible, "humane" computing environments didn't end with the Mac; learn more here and here. | | | To be fair, Raskin's ideas related to the Macintosh seem to have been pretty general ones (a low-cost, easy to use computer) that Steve Jobs then brought to fruition. | | | February 27, 2005 1:23 PM Jeff Raskin, widely considered the father of the Macintosh computer, has died. |
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http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/40004
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| | Jef Raskin the Movie |
| | Jef Raskin says computers should be better so he's creating one that's easier and more fun to use. | | | When you talk with Jef, you realize that computers can be better. | | | Especially if you have access to the people who made computer history, share Jef's passions like model airplanes or music, or can illustrate how computers should be better in a funny or insightful way. |
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http://www.jefthemovie.com
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| | A Real Johnny Appleseed - CBS News |
| | Raskin, who started working as head of the Apple publications department in 1978 as employee # 31, envisioned a computer that was cheaper and easier to use than the machines that were around during the late 70s and very early 80s. | | | Although Jef had reportedly visited Xerox PARC (Palo Alto Research Center) and had seen that company's pioneering work on graphical user interfaces, Raskin's vision of computing focused less on graphics and the use of the mouse and more on trying to find simple and "humane" ways to control a personal computer. | | | Raskin's vision of the ideal interface involved better search methodologies, the elimination of all "modal aspects of the basic human-machine interface" and "improved navigation methods." In 2004, Raskin told The Guardian "Unfortunately, the Mac is now a mess," arguing that even the Macintosh's relatively intuitive interface was still not easy enough. |
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http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/02/27/scitech/pcanswer/main676791.shtml
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| | The Mac's creator on Apple, Jobs and his new project MacMinute News |
| | Raskin and his company, T.H.E. (The Humane Environment) are working on a new type of command structure (dubbed simply THE) that merges the strengths of the graphical user interface with the flexibility of command-line systems common in more complex software. | | | THE is designed to provide a "better and truly pleasant way for us to interact with a wide range of technology; from computers and PDAs to cell phones and other information appliances," Raskin explains in an online column. | | | One interesting bit of trivia is that Jobs initially wanted to dub the computer project that would become the Macintosh "Bicycle" because it was as easy to learn as riding a bike. |
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http://www.macminute.com/2004/02/11/jeffraskin
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| | Home - Raskin Center |
| | Jef says that our honeymoon with digital technology is over: We are tired of having to learn huge, arcane programs to do even the simplest of tasks; we have had our fill of crashing computers; and we are fatigued by the continual pressure to upgrade. | | | The Humane Interface is Jef Raskin's book about human interface design. | | | A full fledged Archy is complex (we are writing an advanced operating system from the ground up), and on top of that we are still novices, exploring new directions in interface design, as hinted at by Jef Raskin. |
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http://rchi.raskincenter.org/index.php?title=Home
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| | In Memoriam :: Jef Raskin Lambda the Ultimate |
| | Jef is perhaps best know as the Father of the Macintosh, although his work has long since moved beyond it with the founding of The Raskin Center for Humane Interfaces which is developing a quite novel alternative to today's desktop systems. | | | He was truly a visionary and his writing and email correspondence contained many valuable pointers and insights that shall serve as an inspiration in my personal research and in the ongoing work of The Institute for End User Computing, Inc. for years to come. | | | Readers of Lambda the Ultimate will find his observations on "More Humane Programming Language Environments" in his magna opus, The Humane Interface to be of particular interest. |
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http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/view/556
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| | Jef Raskin and "human usability" |
| | If you read about Raskin's personal history, you'll realize that he was obsessed from very early on with the "computers should make tasks easy for people, not the other way around" idea, back when most others didn't think it was too important. | | | One of the things that Raskin taught me early was that the person was important and the computer wasn't. | | | In his Master's thesis, published in 1967 (titled, by the way, "The Quick-Draw Graphics System"), he wrote that his work was driven by a philosophy "which demanded generality and human usability over execution speed and efficiency". |
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http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/6575
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| | Meet Apple Macintosh Creator Jef Raskin at Macworld Expo in San Francisco |
| | A free software demo is available from the company's website: http://halfkeyboard.com/product For more information about Jef Raskin and his long list of accomplishments, please visit: http://library.stanford.edu/mac/earlymac.html http://jefraskin.com Matias' Half Keyboard technology allows fast one-handed text entry, using peoples' existing touch typing skills. | | | It is enabling technology for handheld word processing, wearable computing, and cellphone e-mail. | | | Coincidentally, Bill was my professor at the University of Toronto, and we had just finished a big research project evaluating the Half Keyboard design. |
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http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/01-04-2001/0001396635&EDATE=
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| | Folklore.org: Macintosh Stories: The Father Of The Macintosh |
| | There's no doubt that Jef was the creator of the Macintosh project at Apple, and that his articulate vision of an exceptionally easy to use, low cost, high volume appliance computer got the ball rolling, and remained near the heart of the project long after Jef left the company. | | | In early 1979, after successfully building an outstanding pubs department, Jef turned the reins over to Phyllis Cole and started thinking about what it would take for personal computers to expand beyond the current hobbyist market, writing up his ideas in a series of short papers. | | | But there is also no escaping the fact that the Macintosh that we know and love is very different than the computer that Jef wanted to build, so much so that he is much more like an eccentric great uncle than the Macintosh's father. |
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http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story=The_Father_of_The_Macintosh.txt
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| | BW Online January 18, 2002 Can Jobs "Think Outside the Pretty Box"? |
| | Jef Raskin got bitten by the Apple Computer bug in the mid-1970s, back when the two Steves, Wozniak and Jobs, were still working out of a garage. | | | He oversaw the design of a machine that revolutionized the way people interact with digital devices by using a graphical user interface -- a method for controlling the computer that an average person could fathom. | | | The fact that point-and-click is still the state-of-the-art isn't a good thing, argues Raskin, who parted with Apple in 1982 and went on to become an interface and computer-design consultant as well as the author of The Humane Interface, ($24.95, Addison-Wesley). |
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http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/jan2002/tc20020118_5216.htm
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| | Fond/Fun Memories of 'Mac Father' Jef Raskin. Get Real: Stowe Boyd's Soapbox |
| | Jef was uncompromising in his belief that computers ought to be great symbolic engines for the masses, and that designers and engineers should pull out all the stops to make life more pleasant for computer users. | | | Jef had designed a compact computer language called FLOW, for teaching programming to novices, particularly Arts and Humanities students at UCSD. | | | This in effect required the team to 'live within the environment' as a forcing function to help boostrap the environment into a better state - something unheard of at the time (because such teams would typically have wanted to work on more powerful timesharing systems and minicomputers of the day). |
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http://getreal.corante.com/archives/2005/03/01/fondfun_memories_of_mac_father_jef_raskin.php
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| | Raskin on Cooper : Letters : uidesign.net |
| | Cooper's greater attention to qualitative methods also motivates his assertion that "good design is self-evident." Raskin should not feel so alarmed, as Cooper would certainly agree with him that developers and users do not always recognize better design at first blush. | | | The answer comes by referring to the persona--by knowing whether the persona needs the feature and how he or she needs it to be presented. | | | We agree that tools should never be chosen in advance of understanding the task the user wants to accomplish. |
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http://www.uidesign.net/2000/letters/raskinoncooper.html
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| | Jef Raskin: He Thought Different |
| | Raskin's vision: to build an affordable computer designed for nontechy consumers -- a radical idea at a time when using a computer required memorizing complex codes and commands. | | | Yet until his Feb. 26 death at 61, the creator of the Macintosh led the rallying cry for easy-to-use computers, leaving an indelible mark on Silicon Valley and helping to revolutionize the computer industry. | | | Friends and co-workers describe it as his longtime vision of easy-to-use computing brought to life. |
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http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/mar2005/tc2005031_2111_tc120.htm
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| | Slashdot GUI Pioneer Jef Raskin Has Passed Away |
| | Raskin's vision was for an easy to use, CHEAP, computer for the everyman. | | | Slashdotters, I have been working with the Raskins for several years to document Jef's life and work for the DigiBarn Computer Museum. | | | In Raskin's book The Humane Interface, some of his ideas throw up more questions than answers, but he at least articulates a genuinely different model of interaction from the current WIMP (Windows, Icons, Menus and Pointers) mode of operation shared by Mac, Windows and Linux. |
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http://apple.slashdot.org/apple/05/02/27/1835231.shtml?tid=3
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| | Amazon.co.uk: The Humane Interface: New Directions for Designing Interactive Systems: Books |
| | Jef Raskin presents a good overview of human machine interaction issues in the first few chapters. | | | The honeymoon with digital technology is over- millions of users are tired of having to learn huge, arcane programs to perform the simplest tasks; fatigued by the pressure of constant upgrades, and have had enough of system crashes. | | | In The Humane Interface, Jef Raskin - the legendary, controversial creator of the original Apple Macintosh project - shows that there is another path. |
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http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0201379376
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| | Don Norman's jnd.org / In Appreciation of Jef Raskin |
| | The philosophy of Archy, among other things, is to eliminate the artificial distinction between the Operating System and applications (just as in Jef's pioneering Canon Cat, where he eliminated the notion of files and documents). | | | But this note is not to commemorate his life, nor to discuss his book (The Humane Interface: New Directions for Designing Interactive Systems), but rather to discuss his latest project, Archy, also known as THE (as in The Human Interface). | | | And look for Jef's new book, The Humane Environment, now in development at Addison-Wesley. |
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http://www.jnd.org/dn.mss/in_appreciation_of_j.html
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| | Jef Raskin, 'Father of the Macintosh,' Dies |
| | "There's no doubt that Jef was the creator of the Macintosh project at Apple, and that his articulate vision of an exceptionally easy to use, low cost, high volume appliance computer got the ball rolling, and remained near the heart of the project long after Jef left the company," the article says. | | | For the majority of computer users today, the graphical user interface is the primary method of interface, though before Apple's Macintosh took the stage in 1984, that wasn't the case. | | | To further his effort, he also founded the Raskin Center for Humane Interfaces to help shepherd development of the ideal GUI, which he proposed in his book. |
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http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/it_res/article.php/3486351
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| | Wired News: Paying Tribute to Mac's Daddy |
| | Clearly, Raskin's aptitude for math and computing started early. | | | At the time of his death, he was close to finishing a simplified user interface known as "Archy" designed to do away with unnecessary mouse movements. | | | "'He said that a computer should be a household appliance,'" said Aenea Raskin, Jef's daughter, who also quoted his cousin Miriam Meisler: '"He said that in 1963, when he was 20.'" |
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http://www.wired.com/news/mac/0,2125,66885,00.html
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| | BetaNews Macintosh Creator Jef Raskin Dies at 61 |
| | Raskin pioneered using a simple graphical interface in his desire to make computers easier to use. | | | Following a bitter dispute with Apple CEO Steve Jobs, Raskin left Apple in 1982 and founded another company devoted to improving computer interfaces. | | | Nonetheless, he is remembered by Macintosh team members as a critical force behind many computing innovations seen today. |
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http://www.betanews.com/article/Macintosh_Creator_Jef_Raskin_Dies_at_61/1109605463
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| | DBLP: Jef Raskin |
| | Jef Raskin: Holes in history: a personal perspective on how and why the early history of today's major interface paradigm has been so often misreported. | | | Jef Raskin: Comments are more important than code. | | | Jef Raskin: Looking for a Humane Interface: Will Computers Ever Become Easy to Use? |
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http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/indices/a-tree/r/Raskin:Jef.html
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| | IGM: Jef Raskin dead at 61 |
| | The Digibarn Computer Museum reports that Jef Raskin died on Saturday, Feb 26 of cancer. | | | His official website (linked above) describes Raskin as "...an interface and systems designer, a writer, and a consultant, concentrating primarily on making computers more usable and their interfaces efficient, as well as pleasant. | | | Additional information on Raskin is available on Andy Hertzfeld's Folklore.org. |
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http://www.insanely-great.com/news.php?id=4433
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| | MacAddict Forums / Jef Raskin |
| | Raskin if not saying "hey, let's turn the computer's desktop into a real desktop." He simply noting that | | | In Jef's version of things, Jef designed everything, but he just didn't. | | | If you want a former Mac guru who worked at Apple to get human interface ideas from, I recommend Bruce "Tog" Tognazzini www.asktog.com "During his 14 years at Apple Computer, he founded the Apple Human Interface Group and acted as Apple's Human Interface Evangelist." Tog is also gainfully employed with the Nielsen Norman Group. |
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http://www.macaddict.com/forums/post/708949
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| | Macworld: Pro File: Mac Daddy |
| | Dubbed "Macintosh" by Raskin, the project ultimately led to the computer we know and love today. | | | In the early days of Apple, he argued so forcefully that computers should be easy for ordinary people to use, the company gave him a project just to quiet him down. | | | His book, The Humane Interface, looks at ways to develop designs that more closely conform to the way humans work, rather than forcing people to follow what computers do.--DAVID READ |
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http://www.macworld.com/2002/03/macbeat/raskin.html
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| | Boing Boing: "Mac father" Jef Raskin: in memoriam |
| | Raskin is best known for starting the Macintosh project at Apple in the late seventies, though his later career as an expert in computer interfaces was overshadowed by controversy over who 'fathered' the Macintosh. | | | Personal computing pioneer Jef Raskin passed away this weekend. | | | Though Raskin conceived of the Mac, he was usurped by Steve Jobs, who put his own distinctive mark on the machine we know today. |
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http://www.boingboing.net/2005/02/28/mac_father_jef_raski.html
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| | I.T. Vibe - Creator of Apple Mac, Jef Raskin, dies |
| | It was only a year later that Raskin dreamt up an easy to use computer, at a price consumers could afford. | | | This is sad news for the computing world. | | | I also read in a biography about Steve Jobs, the nasty letter that Jef Raskin wrote explaining by Jobs was (back then) a very bad manager of the Macintosh project. |
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http://itvibe.com/news/3323
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| | Jef Raskin on "Intuitive Interfaces" |
| | By Raskin, J. One of the most common terms of praise for an interface is to say that it is "intuitive" (the word should have been "intuitable" but we will bow to convention). | | | Yet the Human Computer Interaction (HCI) literature rarely mentions the word, and for good reason. | | | Acknowledgements: I would like to thank Bill Buxton, Donald Norman, Linda Blum, and Bruce Tognazzini for useful suggestions. |
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| | The History of Apple's 'Syntax' Poster, 1979-80 by Lucas Wagner |
| | To assist in writing better code, he fixed the errors. | | | For example, the "Statement" syntax block features a "pink on pink" motif. | | | Raskin's purpose for designing a new syntax chart in a poster format was utilitarian. |
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http://homepage.mac.com/lucaswagner/raskin
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| | Mitch Kapor's Weblog: Jef Raskin, R.I.P. |
| | I met Jef in 1980 while I was working at Personal Software. | | | Never had a chance to even see of his work, but when I read his thoughts and when stumbled at his humane project ideas and his invitation to all, I was quite amazed. | | | I often tried to get him to tell me, but he never would say what he was working on, other than the fact it was going to change the world. |
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http://blogs.osafoundation.org/mitch/000868.html
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| | The Humane Touch: Bad Design Can Be Costly - Forbes.com |
| | Jef Raskin is an author and interface and system design consultant. | | | The father of the original Macintosh project, he named it after his favorite apple. | | | Hart was accepting "revenue generating messages only." Until she left to become CEO of ExciteAtHome last month, she still used her old "phart" email. |
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http://www.forbes.com/asap/2001/0528/016a.html
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| | Jef Raskin A to Z - Date A to Z |
| | Jef Raskin Center for Humane Interface gets $2 million in start-up funding | | | Celebrating 20 Years of the Mac - Interview with Jef Raskin on NPR | | | Raskin's Sure Guide to Determining a Modeler's Skill Level |
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http://www.usabilityviews.com/jef_by_date.html
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| | Dan Gillmor on Grassroots Journalism, Etc.: Jef Raskin, R.I.P. |
| | Since the first time I used one, I fell in love with the Mac. | | | Listed below are links to weblogs that reference Jef Raskin, R.I.P. » Jef Raskin, Father of the Macintosh - RIP from ISOU | | | Via Gillmor, Jef Raskin, father of the Mac is dead at 61. |
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