Dr. Dobb's Journal Interviews Jef Raskin (1986)

from the May 1986 issue of Dr. Dobb' Journal (CAFTP note: Jef Raskin started the Macintosh in the late 1970s. Steve Jobs became interested in the project and took it over from Raskin. Raskin had different goals than Jobs, and his Macintosh would have looked very different.) Human Interface Design: Jef Raskin Interview Jef Raskin’s involvement with personal computer user-interface design is hardly recent. In early issues of DDJ, he inveighed against needlessly complex systems. At Apple Computer, he wrote many of the company’s product manuals. Later he was a member of the original Macintosh design team. Today he is the founder of Information Appliance of Menlo Park, California, which currently offers a product called SwyftCard for the Apple Ile and IIc. DDI will review SwyftCard next month. Raskin cares tremendously about user-interface design, on computers and elsewhere. During our discussion he said, “As a person I’m easily frustrated. I’m very annoyed at the little things that mos ... Read full article.