![]() Yet he opted to step away from the epicenter of the personal computing revolution in order to realize a more complete vision of his own computer user interface style. Raskin was a catalyst for creating user-focused commercial computer experiences in an environment of rapid technological advancement, matching people with visionary ideas. That man, Jef Raskin, laid the groundwork for what was to become one of the most important commercial products of the late twentieth century. That name owes itself to another person – a human interface designer who literally offended his thesis committee with the statement that “design and implementation philosophy…demanded generality and human usability over execution speed and efficiency.” As much as Steve Jobs would like to call the Mac his ‘baby,’ he didn’t even come up with the name. The first commercially successful personal computer to use the now customary mouse and graphical user interface (GUI). ![]() It seems to be a professional hazard.The Apple Macintosh. Of course, Alan Kay has one, and Donald Knuth has one, so You have to be pretty crazy to have a pipe organ at Musical section there's a picture of a pipe Stone, an oboist, and I don't know how many times we've all played To hire at Apple, was a brilliant player on the cornetto,Ī Renaissance instrument, and on recorders. Many times, and it was the musical Stanford connection as muchĪs the other that was strong. Who's sung with Chanticleer, and who I've performed with many For example, there was my very good friend Doug Wyatt, I had a lot of musical friends over at PARC, and one of theīigger links was not as much CS- although that was important-īut musical. She was at both the AI Lab and PARC, so there Me about how she was at PARC in those days, though we didn't knowĮach other then. With Elisabeth Paté-Cornell, who's head of the new Management ScienceĪnd Engineering department at Stanford, and she was telling In fact, just the other night I spent a couple hours The people at PARC: people just flowed back and forth along Arastadero The people at the AI lab were tightly intermixed with I had been a visiting scholar at Stanford University in theirĪrtificial Intelligence Lab, starting in 1972 and then again inġ973, when I was a professor at the University of California at Raskin: It was not a formal relationship at any point. Pang: What was your relationship with PARC prior to Holland and there are 600 people who've flown from all over forĪ conference on user interface. Out- there was just a sentence or two, but it was in there! Inįact, my advisor recommended that I not talk about that because I argued that we should be designing machines from the interface They'd built the Altos and other machines, which were built to The user interface and working from there was completely alien,Īt least in the personal computer industry. ![]() The idea of building a whole computer system starting with It was a totally unknown concept: you just didn't worry about If you said you were a user interface specialist, you wouldn't There wasn't a whole lot known about interactionĭesign at the time it wasn't even a recognized field at that There because I had joined Apple, and it seemed unethical to continue Raskin: - but most of the work I knew about was beingĭone at PARC, but from early 1978 onward I had stayed away from What the state of anything was at any point in history. Raskin: I'd have to go back and review magazines andīooks of the time to really remember. Of the field was at the time- what people would have looked toĪs important exemplars, problems, and where Xerox Can you give me a sense of what the state Interaction at the time the Macintosh project got ![]() Pang: I want to begin by asking about the state of human-computer
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