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The Anti-Mac User Interface (Don Gentner and Jakob Nielsen)

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We reverse all of the core design principles behind the Macintosh human interface guidelines to arrive at the characteristics of the Internet desktop.

33 The Anti-Mac Interface Jakob Nielsen Jakob Nielsen August 1, 1996 1996-08-01 Share Email article Share on LinkedIn Share on Twitter Summary: We reverse all of the core design principles behind the Macintosh human interface guidelines to arrive at the characteristics of the Internet desktop. Originally published as: Gentner, D., and Nielsen, J.: The Anti-Mac interface, Communications of the ACM 39 , 8 (August 1996), 70–82. (See also: my appreciation of the Macintosh on its 25th anniversary.) By exploring alternative interfaces that transcend the principles behind conventional graphical inter

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