Jef Raskin
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Born
The Macintosh idea. Raskin, a human-interface specialist, started Apple's Macintosh project in 1979 with the goal of a cheap computer anyone could use without a manual. Jobs later took over and redirected it towards the graphical interface inspired by Xerox PARC, but Raskin's insistence on consistency and ease of learning shaped it. He later founded Information Appliance and wrote The Humane Interface. He died in 2005.
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