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The Humane Interface: New Directions for Designing Interactive Systems
By Jef Raskin; Addison-Wesley, 2000, ISBN 0201379376. Guide to interactive system design, reflects author experience and vision, shows many extant interfaces are dead ends, making computers easier to use needs new approaches. [publisher website]
http://www.awprofessional.com/catalog/prod...
The Humane Interface
Book review of The Human Interface: New Directions for Interface Design, by Jef Raskin, and the usual mass of forum comments. Many varied opinions. [Slashdot]
http://books.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=0...
Jef Raskin's Humane Environment
SourceForge site, with description, download, bug reports, some old news.
https://sourceforge.net/projects/humane/
THE Key to User-Friendly Computers?
By Alex Salkever. Raskin helped design Apple's classic user interface. He is working on a new system that could be a big improvement. Brief accessible analysis. [BusinessWeek]
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/con...
Crafting a Revolution
Interview of Aza Raskin on THE (Archy), and his father Jef. [ACM: Ubiquity]
http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/interviews/v5i...
In Appreciation of Jef Raskin
Brief praise of Raskin, and critique of Archy zooming interface, with references, by usability expert Don Norman who was at Apple with Raskin, during the early years.
http://www.jnd.org/dn.mss/in_appreciation_...
The Humane Environment
Brief news story, and forum comments in great abundance, more than usual. Many varied opinions. [Slashdot]
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/2...
Down With GUIs
By Jef Raskin. Article stressing that GUIs are not human-compatible. As long as we hang on to interfaces as we now know them, computers will remain inherently frustrating, upsetting, stressful. [Wired 1.06]
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/1.06/1....
Raleigh News & Observer: Keeping Interface Simple
Summary of newspaper story, useful forum comments. [Linux Today]
http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn...
Archy
Clear description of Archy (was THE), divided into interface components. [Wikipedia]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archy
The Humane Environment
Brief announcement of first THE (Archy) release, with over 50 forum comments. [OSNews.com]
http://osnews.com/story.php?news_id=2445
osOpinion: Raskin on 'Raskin on OS X'
Summary of newspaper story, useful forum comments. [Linux Today]
http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn...
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2006