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Brief news story, and forum comments in great abundance, more than usual. Many varied opinions. [Slashdot]
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/27/1835214
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=01/05/12/2259254
Brief announcement of first THE (Archy) release, with over 50 forum comments. [OSNews.com]
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The Humane Environment OSNews.com Linked by special contributor Kevin Adams on 2002-12-26 03:38:10 UTC Pahtz writes A very alpha release of The Humane Environment (THE) for MacOS was made on Christmas Eve. Jef Raskin, creator Apple's Macintosh, and author of the book The Humane...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/ca...446-A03C-4A2B-9D5E-1C35EF79372F}
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]
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BW Online January 22, 2003 THE Key to User-Friendly Computers? Search Advanced Search Get Four Free Issues Register Subscribe to BW Customer Service PREMIUM CONTENT MBA Insider ONLINE FEATURES Book Reviews BW Video Columnists Interactive Gallery Newsletters Past Covers Philanthropy Podcasts Special Reports BLOGS Blogspotting Brand New Day Byte of...Summary of newspaper story, useful forum comments. [Linux Today]
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Linux Today Raleigh News Observer: Keeping Interface Simple Get the facts you need to make the choice between Windows and Linux. Just click on the whitepaper of your choice to download: Whitepaper: Hardening Security Is Key to Reducing Risk and TCO This study found that Windows security rated...Summary of newspaper story, useful forum comments. [Linux Today]
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Linux Today osOpinion: Raskin on Raskin on OS X Get the facts you need to make the choice between Windows and Linux. Just click on the whitepaper of your choice to download: Whitepaper: Hardening Security Is Key to Reducing Risk and TCO This study found that Windows security rated...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]
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Wired 1.06: Down With GUIs! As long as we hang on to interfaces as we now know them, computers will remain inherently frustrating, upsetting, and stressful. GUIs have become so pervasive (or is it perversive that many computer users can't even think about anything else...By Paul Gilster. When Jef Raskin talks about computers, it pays to listen; he has spent his career thinking about how to make computing easier. Balanced, positive explanation of THE (Archy). [Raleigh News & Observer]
http://www.newsobserver.com/busi...003/story/1258501p-7371284c.html
Official site advancing the work of the author of The Humane Interface. Most complete site on Archy, was THE, The Humane Environment. Also writings on diverse topics, manual, specification, screenshot, bug list, CVS, downloads. [Open Source, GPL]
http://www.raskincenter.org/
Film on Raskin being made via Internet collaboration. Interviews, comments, sample footage, Raskin Lectures on Interface. Short segments use Creative Commons license.
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Jef Raskin the Movie We lost one of the great ones today, a good and generous man. Dave Burstein DSLPrime.com Jef Raskin died of cancer on Saturday February 26th after being sick for several months. A wonderful spirit and renaissance man, who inspired me...Computer museum with many resources: photo galleries, information on early Apple I/II, Macintosh, IAI Swyft, Canon Cat, user interface experiments, other Raskin inventions; interviews, slides, remembrances by computer scientists.
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DigiBarn Friends: Jef Raskin, A Life of Design Raskin passed away peacefully on Saturday February 26th, 2005. Our condolences go out to Jef's family, friends and wider community. We invite you to view and listen to our January 2005 interviews with Jef as well as see slides featuring...Touching memorial comic, features a Macintosh thanking Raskin.
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★ The Joy of Tech Where do you want to go when you die? GUI Heaven. The Desktop of Infinity. The Degaussing Fields. The Perl-ly gates. The Big Windows in the Sky. The Great Coding Grounds. 1 Infinite Loop. View the Results Email a friend...Interview of Aza Raskin on THE (Archy), and his father Jef. [ACM: Ubiquity]
http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/interviews/v5i21_aza.html
Short but thorough biography, links. [Wikipedia]
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Jef Raskin Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Raskin holding a model of the Canon Cat. 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 edit] Biography Raskin was born...Treats Pascal poster designed by Jef Raskin, and altered by Steve Jobs.
http://homepage.mac.com/lucaswagner/raskin/
Frank, brief interview, criticism of Macintosh, thoughts on useful user interfaces, Hypercard, progress in computing. [Guardian Unlimited]
http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/story/0,3605,1331536,00.html
Touching memorial comic, features hill topped with an Apple tree.
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UserFriendly Strip Comments Just use the normal image tag n/t) by afterburner[2005/03/06 23:20] Sorry, my bad. by themadkansan[2005/03/06 23:23] Email me the picture. by krikkert[2005/03/07 00:04 me fixed it. by themadkansan[2005/03/07 00:17] I've had good experiences with Photobucket. by jmaxsohmer[2005/03/06 23:25] ARG! WinXP...Two sizable documents: Recollections of the Macintosh Project, More Historical Facts. Links to Bruce Horn letters.
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Jef Raskin about the history of the Macintosh Raskin about the history of the Macintosh. These are two articles I have received via email or on a newsgroup (I don't recall) From Jef Raskin on the history of the Macintosh. I can not find a copy of Bruce...SourceForge site, with description, download, bug reports, some old news.
https://sourceforge.net/projects/humane/
List of about 60 articles by Raskin, with links to them.
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Jef Raskin A to Z Date A to Z Raskin passed away peacefully on Saturday February 26th, 2005 our condolences go out to Jef's family, friends and wider community. Jan 2005 Jef Raskin Center for Humane Interface gets $2 million in start-up funding Nov 2004 Tech Spec Nov 2004...Brief but thorough tribute article. [Software Development Times]
http://68.236.189.240/article/story-20050315-11.html
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.
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Don Norman's jnd.org In Appreciation of Jef Raskin I first met him when he was a professor at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) in the early 1970s, and although his degree was in music, he was a professor of art, doing computer science, and art, and...Clear description of Archy (was THE), divided into interface components. [Wikipedia]
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Archy Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Archy is a proposed radically new system for interacting with many kinds of computers. Designed by human-computer interface expert Jef Raskin, it embodies his ideas and established results about human-centered design described in his book The Humane Interface. These ideas...