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“The conversation, at times amusing and insightful, didn’t really offer a coherent picture of the history of the Mac, or even of its development, but it did underline the importance of computer-human interfaces.”

…and…

“Jef Raskin is a professor at the University of Chicago, still working on human interface. Frustratingly, he was unable to provide any details about what he was doing, several times saying that it was too complicated to explain adequately, and would be like trying to explain the Mac interface to a DOS user back in 1982. He did conclude by saying that the secret of Human Interface design is that it be so consistent and mindless that you don’t have to think about the computer.”

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(Thanks for the pointer Thad Pasquale!)

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