- The Humane Environment - Brief news story, and forum comments in great abundance, more than usual. Many varied opinions. [Slashdot]
- The Humane Interface - Book review of The Human Interface: New Directions for Interface Design, by Jef Raskin, and the usual mass of forum comments. Many varied opinions. [Slashdot]
- The Humane Environment - Brief announcement of first THE (Archy) release, with over 50 forum comments. [OSNews.com]
- The Humane Interface: New Directions for Designing Interactive Systems - By Jef Raskin; Addison-Wesley, 2000, ISBN 0201379376. Guide to interactive system design, reflects author experience and vision, shows many extant interfaces are dead ends, making computers easier to use needs new approaches. [publisher website]
- THE Key to User-Friendly Computers? - By Alex Salkever. Raskin helped design Apple's classic user interface. He is working on a new system that could be a big improvement. Brief accessible analysis. [BusinessWeek]
- Raleigh News & Observer: Keeping Interface Simple - Summary of newspaper story, useful forum comments. [Linux Today]
- osOpinion: Raskin on 'Raskin on OS X' - Summary of newspaper story, useful forum comments. [Linux Today]
- Down With GUIs - By Jef Raskin. Article stressing that GUIs are not human-compatible. As long as we hang on to interfaces as we now know them, computers will remain inherently frustrating, upsetting, stressful. [Wired 1.06]
- Keeping Interface Simple - By Paul Gilster. When Jef Raskin talks about computers, it pays to listen; he has spent his career thinking about how to make computing easier. Balanced, positive explanation of THE (Archy). [Raleigh News & Observer]
- Jef Raskin Center for Humane Interfaces - Official site advancing the work of the author of The Humane Interface. Most complete site on Archy, was THE, The Humane Environment. Also writings on diverse topics, manual, specification, screenshot, bug list, CVS, downloads. [Open Source, GPL]
- Jef Raskin the Movie - Film on Raskin being made via Internet collaboration. Interviews, comments, sample footage, Raskin Lectures on Interface. Short segments use Creative Commons license.
- DigiBarn Friends: Jef Raskin, A Life of Design - Computer museum with many resources: photo galleries, information on early Apple I/II, Macintosh, IAI Swyft, Canon Cat, user interface experiments, other Raskin inventions; interviews, slides, remembrances by computer scientists.
- The Joy of Tech - Touching memorial comic, features a Macintosh thanking Raskin.
- Crafting a Revolution - Interview of Aza Raskin on THE (Archy), and his father Jef. [ACM: Ubiquity]
- Jef Raskin - Short but thorough biography, links. [Wikipedia]
- The History of Apple's 'Syntax' Poster, 1979-80 - Treats Pascal poster designed by Jef Raskin, and altered by Steve Jobs.
- Talk Time: Jef Raskin - Frank, brief interview, criticism of Macintosh, thoughts on useful user interfaces, Hypercard, progress in computing. [Guardian Unlimited]
- UserFriendly - Touching memorial comic, features hill topped with an Apple tree.
- Articles from Jef Raskin about the History of the Macintosh - Two sizable documents: Recollections of the Macintosh Project, More Historical Facts. Links to Bruce Horn letters.
- Jef Raskin's Humane Environment - SourceForge site, with description, download, bug reports, some old news.
- Jef Raskin A to Z - List of about 60 articles by Raskin, with links to them.
- Jef Raskin, GUI Pioneer and Macintosh Creator, Dies at 61 - Brief but thorough tribute article. [Software Development Times]
- In Appreciation of Jef Raskin - Brief praise of Raskin, and critique of Archy zooming interface, with references, by usability expert Don Norman who was at Apple with Raskin, during the early years.
- Archy - Clear description of Archy (was THE), divided into interface components. [Wikipedia]
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