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Quotes from The Humane Interface — Jef Raskin

1943–2005 United States

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Users do not care about what is inside the box, as long as the box does what they need done.

The Humane Interface (2001)

As far as the customer is concerned, the interface is the product.

The Humane Interface (2001)

A computer shall not waste your time or require you to do more work than is strictly necessary.

The Humane Interface (2001)

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

The Humane Interface (2001)

Once the product's task is known, design the interface first; then implement to the interface design.

The Humane Interface (2001)

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

The Humane Interface (2001)

When you have to choose among methods, your locus of attention is drawn from the task and temporarily becomes the decision itself.

The Humane Interface (2001)

The system should treat all user input as sacred.

The Humane Interface (2001)

An unlimited-length file name is a file. The content of a file is its own best name.

The Humane Interface (2001)

If I am correct, the use of a product based on modelessness and monoty would soon become so habitual as to be nearly addictive, leading to a user population devoted to and loyal to the product.

The Humane Interface (2001)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Jef Raskin (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.