Quotes by Jef Raskin

Jef Raskin

A computer shall not harm your work or, through inaction, allow your work to come to harm.

Computer

Harm

Inaction

A computer shall not waste your time or require you to do more work than is strictly necessary.

Computer

Waste

A well-designed and humane interface does not have to be split into beginner and expert subsystems.

Design

Experts

Simplicity

An interface is humane if it is responsive to human needs and considerate of human frailties.

Considerate

Frailty

Needs

An unlimited-length file name is a file. The content of a file is its own best name.

Length

Names

Unlimited

As far as the customer is concerned, the interface is the product.

Design

Educational

Experience

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?

Confusion

Design

Mind

I am only a footnote, but proud of the footnote I have become. My subsequent work on eliciting principles and developing the theory of interface design, so that many people will be able to do what I did is probably also footnote-worthy. In looking back at this turn-of-the-century period, the rise of a worldwide network will be seen as the most significant part of the computer revolution.

Design

People

Principles

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.

Hate

Ideas

Jobs

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.

Loyal

Population

Use

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Classroom

Computer

Confusion

Considerate

Crazy

Creativity

Decision

Design

Doe

Educational

Experience

Experts

Fields

Firsts

Frailty

Funny

Harm

Hate

Humor

Ideas

Inaction

Input

Jobs

Length

Long

Loyal

Mind

Names

Needs

People

Population

Principles

Results

Sacred

Servant

Should

Simplicity

Tasks

Time

Today

Unlimited

Use

Want

Waste

Would Be

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Quotes by Jef Raskin

Jef Raskin

A computer shall not harm your work or, through inaction, allow your work to come to harm.

A computer shall not waste your time or require you to do more work than is strictly necessary.

A well-designed and humane interface does not have to be split into beginner and expert subsystems.

An interface is humane if it is responsive to human needs and considerate of human frailties.

An unlimited-length file name is a file. The content of a file is its own best name.

As far as the customer is concerned, the interface is the product.

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.

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.

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