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Date: 1998-07-17

The Anti/Mac Interface


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Nur die Ruhe, gern enragierte Mac/only/users. Ausgesucht zur
Wahrnehmungs/attacke wurde das Interface des Mac weil es -
als Original - halt etwas logischer als das sogenannte WIMP
(windows plus impotence) Interface funktioniert.
Einer der zwei Verfasser dieser fundamentalen Analyse - der
link down/stairs wird ausdrücklich empfohlen - hat die
Website von
sun.com kon/zipiert.

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Don Gentner & Jakob Nielsen:

In this article, we explore the types of interfaces that
could result if we violate each of the Macintosh human
interface design principles. We focus on the Macintosh
interface because it is a prime example of the current
interface paradigm, and Apple Computer has published an
explicit list of Macintosh human interface design principles
[2]. These principles have not significantly changed since
the introduction of the Macintosh; style guides for other
popular graphical interfaces, such as Motif, OPEN LOOK, and
Windows [16, 18, 22], list a very similar set of principles
as the basis for their interfaces.
...
It needed to sell to "naive users," that is, users without
any previous computer experience. It was targeted at a
narrow range of applications (mostly office work, though
entertainment and multimedia applications have been added
later in ways that sometimes break slightly with the
standard interface). It controlled relatively weak
computational resources (originally a non-networked computer
with 128KB RAM, a 400KB storage device, and a dot-matrix
printer). It was supported by highly impoverished
communication channels between the user and the computer
(initially a small black-and-white screen with poor audio
output, no audio input, and no other sensors than the
keyboard and a one-button mouse). It was a standalone
machine that at most was connected to a printer.

Full text
http://www.acm.org/cacm/AUG96/antimac.htm

related
http://www.sun.com/sun-on-net/uidesign/
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