17, 24) This chapter also covers areas of conscious and unconscious thoughts, formation of habits and automatic behaviours and their dangers in user interface design.Ĭhapter 3. 10) The most important aspect of this area is the locus of attention which “is a feature or object in the physical world or an idea about which you are intently or actively thinking.†We can only have one locus of attention and this is something that is both a hazard and a tool for interface designers. Raskin defines cognetics as “The study of the applicable, engineering scope of our mental abilities,” in contrast to ergonomics which is the study of our physical engineering. This chapter is all about the limitations of human kind and how these effect how humans can work with machines and their interfaces. 6)Īnd a final definition of a humane interface:Īn interface is humane if it is responsive to human needs and considerate of human frailties. 6)įor a second interface law… A computer shall not waste your time or require you to do more work than is strictly necessary (p. The first law of interface design should be: A computer shall not harm your work or, through inaction, allow your work to come to harm.
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It is these psychological limitations and competencies that seem to be the main driver behind much of this book.Ī few interesting quotes from this chapter: Raskin suggests experts have forgotten that users are human, and that humans have physical, and more importantly psychological limitations. One key point is the distinction between user-interfaces and human-interfaces. This provides some basic definitions and introductions to the concepts involved in human computer interaction. I’m not convinced they are always significantly better than some existing solutions, but they certainly make interesting reading and are cause for considerable thought. The solutions and interfaces presented by Jef to get around these issues, feel clunky and too focused on avoiding one or two key issues raised.
I feel this is where the book is most valuable. If you can get past this then the book has some excellent coverage of the issues facing computer users, and the designers of such systems. I don’t really have an issue with the use of projects which Jef has been involved in, but there is little or no distance shown in this book and this makes many of the ideas and concepts presented difficult to take seriously. Especially when the few positive critiques are almost exclusively for Jef’s other products such as the Cannon Cat. It is this constant personal critique, which is almost whinging in places, which in my mind really lets this book down. Even in this text, which was written at least 15 years later, Jef shows a strong personal antagonism towards Apple and it’s products. It seems to be one of the longest love-hate relationships in the industry, and it comes across as very personal. Stoughton: Addison Wesley, 2000īy many, Jef Raskin, is believed to be the creator or inventor of the Macintosh computer, and while he did father the project inside Apple, he left a long time prior to it’s eventual release and has been a heavy critic and opponent of Apple and their products ever since. The Humane Interface: new directions for designing interactive systems. Raskin is a member of the American College of Gastroenterology and is Board Certified in Gastroenterology.Designing the User Interface, Ben Schneiderman & Catherine Plaisant » The Humane Interface, Jef Raskin Raskin is the current physician champion of Infection Control, where he has pioneered and instituted effective policies that have led to a major reduction in Clostridium Difficile infection in the hospital. Raskin is the current chairman of the Continuing Medical Education Committee at Hackensack-Palisades Medical Center, a position he has fulfilled for the past 10 years. Raskin is well known as a physician leader in Hackensack-Palisades Medical Center where he is a past president of the Medical Staff, past chairman of the Department of Gastroenterology, and has served on the Board of Trustees of the hospital for many years. Raskin has vast experience in treating patients with gastrointestinal illnesses and has performed thousands of endoscopic procedures.ĭr. Raskin has been practicing Gastroenterology and Hepatology in Northern New Jersey for greater than 25 years. Luke’s-Roosevelt Medical Center in New York, and then completed his Fellowship in Gastroenterology at SUNY- Downstate Medical Center in New York in 1992.ĭr. He went on to do his training in Internal Medicine at St.
Jeffrey Raskin completed medical school at the University of Medicine and Dentistry-NJ in 1987.
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