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The art of making computers usable.

The thing that separates Mac OS from Windows and other operating systems. Not the same as interface design, although interface design is a part of HCI.

Resources:

*Bruce Tognazzini (http://www.asktog.com), who usually has quite a lot to say about the state of interface design at Apple. Both Bruce and Donald have been Apple employees.

*Eric Raymond (OpenSource evangelist) has some things to say as to the state of interface design in the open source world: http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cups-horror.html

*Too lazy (and bandwidth-deficient) to find the link at the moment, but John Gruber should definitely be mentioned here, especially given his comments on Eric Raymond’s CUPS horrors. http://www.daringfireball.net/

*John Sirracusa on the Finder in Mac OS X (as opposed to the Finder in Mac OS): http://arstechnica.com/paedia/f/finder/finder-1.html

*There’s some (somewhat dated) articles at [http://www.mackido.com/Interface/index.html]

– TheoHultberg/Iconara