Jef Raskin Quotes


"Users do not care about what is inside the box, as long as the box does what they need done."
- Jef Raskin
(Related: Care)

"The system should treat all user input as sacred."
- Jef Raskin
"Once the product's task is known, design the interface first; then implement to the interface design."
- Jef Raskin
(Related: Design, First)

"As far as the customer is concerned, the interface is the product."
- Jef Raskin
(Related: Customer)

"An interface is humane if it is responsive to human needs and considerate of human frailties."
- Jef Raskin
(Related: Needs)

"A computer shall not waste your time or require you to do more work than is strictly necessary."
- Jef Raskin
(Related: Time, Work, Computer, Waste)

"A computer shall not harm your work or, through inaction, allow your work to come to harm."
- Jef Raskin
(Related: Work, Computer, Harm, Inaction)

"Right now, computers, which are supposed to be our servant, are oppressing us."
- Jef Raskin
(Related: Computers, Now, Right)