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I before e poem by jef raskin12/31/2023 ![]() ![]() When you have to choose among methods, your locus of attention is drawn from the task and temporarily becomes the decision itself.The content of a file is its own best name. An unlimited-length file name is a file.An interface is humane if it is responsive to human needs and considerate of human frailties.A computer shall not waste your time or require you to do more work than is strictly necessary.A computer shall not harm your work or, through inaction, allow your work to come to harm.The system should treat all user input as sacred.As far as the customer is concerned, the interface is the product.Users do not care about what is inside the box, as long as the box does what they need done.Once the product's task is known, design the interface first then implement to the interface design.The Humane Interface (2001) Full title: The Humane Interface: New Directions for Designing Interactive Systems ![]() Interview in The Guardian (21 October 2004).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. 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. I am only a footnote, but proud of the footnote I have become.On the potential to improve human-computer interaction, in interview with Berkeley Groks (3 March 2004).Right now, computers, which are supposed to be our servant, are oppressing us.As we cannot change the way our minds work, we must change the interface design. These flaws have to do with incompatibilities between the designs of both GUIs and command-line interfaces and the way our brains are wired. ![]() Unfortunately, we have learned that the GUI concept has fundamental flaws that cannot be corrected by small changes.
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