25 Quotes by Jef Raskin

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

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

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

I am only a footnote, but proud of the footnote I have become. My subsequent work on eliciting principles and developing the theory of interface design, so that many people will be able to do what I did is probably also footnote-worthy. In looking back at this turn-of-the-century period, the rise of a worldwide network will be seen as the most significant part of the computer revolution.

What I proposed was a computer that would be easy to use, mix text and graphics, and sell for about $1,000. Steve Jobs said that it was a crazy idea, that it would never sell, and we didn't want anything like it. He tried to shoot the project down.

If our field is "to advance", we must - without displacing creativity and aesthetics - make sure our terminology is clear.

If I had not studied music, there would be no Macintosh computers today.

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.

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