Interview with Jef Raskin

Here is an interesting interview with Jef Raskin on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the Macintosh. Professor Raskin started the Macintosh project at Apple. This interview highlights some of the good and bad user interface choices that were made for the project, such as the one-button mouse and the use of the hierarchical file system.

As for the one-button mouse, I'd observed at Xerox Parc which had a 3-button mouse, that people were very confused as to its use and when I was designing the software for the Macintosh, in designing the interface, I figured that if there was only one button, there would never be any question on what you have to press the number of ways of using a one-button mouse. I think this was probably a mistake...