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.

Now there is little difference, except packaging, between a Mac and a Windows machine. Not no difference, but at home we have- along with six Macs (one for eve…

A computer shall not harm your work or, through inaction, allow your work to come to harm.

Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.

I've spent my whole life worrying about the human-computer interface, so I don't want to suggest that what we have today is even close to acceptable.

I've moved on, grown and learned in the years since then, and am designing interfaces that make the Mac's GUI feel as clumsy to use as the Mac made the old DOS…