The Humane Interface: New Directions For Designing Interactive Systems

Raskin (best known as the creator of the Apple Macintosh project) describes flaws in current machine-human interface structures and offers advice on how to fix them. Proceeding from basic facts about how human consciousness interacts with the outside environment, through simple technologies such as radios, to computers, he looks at a number of aspects of interface principles covering keyboards, mouses, screen configuration, and menu bars.