5 Jef Raskin Quotes on Usability

Jef Raskin quotes on usability

1. 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.

3. Right now, computers, which are supposed to be our servant, are oppressing us.

11. An interface is humane if it is responsive to human needs and considerate of human frailties.

12. 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 everybody plus my travelling iBook)- three PCs and one Linux box, and I can move from one to the other without having to think about it much. What used to be a night-and-day difference in usability has become a small increment in Apple's favor (or favour for you Brits).

13. 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-based systems feel primitive.