Jef Raskin Quotes
Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
A well-designed and humane interface does not have to be split into beginner and expert subsystems.
If our field is "to advance", we must - without displacing creativity and aesthetics - make sure our terminology is clear.
A computer shall not harm your work or, through inaction, allow your work to come to harm.
An interface is humane if it is responsive to human needs and considerate of human frailties.
Users do not care about what is inside the box, as long as the box does what they need done.
A computer shall not waste your time or require you to do more work than is strictly necessary.
Once the product's task is known, design the interface first; then implement to the interface design.
When you have to choose among methods, your locus of attention is drawn from the task and temporarily becomes the decision itself.
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.
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.