Jeff Raskin - "the father of Macintosh"

Jeff Raskin is a man to whom we should be grateful for the appearance of the nominal word "Mac" in our vocabulary. But the main thing is what Jeff Raskin showed himself, these are interfaces. The ideas of its interfaces are sometimes so nonstandard that sometimes they seem ridiculous, and perhaps they are.

For example, some of his postulates:
- rejection of the GUI in favor of an improved command line;
- refusal to split tasks into applications (the user must work in a single interface);
- refusal to use the mouse;

In my opinion, the closest thing we have come to is the implementation of "the rejection of splitting tasks into applications , namely, the browser window.

I think that every usability specialist working on another masterpiece should remember the main idea of ​​Jeff Raskin’s whole life - a convenient, humane interface .
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To familiarize yourself with the life and work of Jeff Raskin, I recommend reading the links on the topic:
- On the site " Computerra ", you can find a fairly old, but not lost its relevance article devoted to the life and work of Jeff Raskin - " Fighter with the system ."
- Ruskin Center
- Demo at Ruskin Center
- book by Jeff Raskin - " Interface: new directions in the design of computer systems " on tip- off Yustos
- the same book, only in electronic form , on a tip from jast