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Jef Raskin on "Intuitive Interfaces"

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One of the most common terms of praise for an interface is to say that it is "intuitive" (the word should have been "intuitable" but we will bow to convention). Yet the Human Computer Interaction (HCI) literature rarely mentions the word, and for good reason. This note attempts to clarify the meaning of "intuitive" for non-HCI specialists.

Jef Raskin on "Intuitive Interfaces" Communications of the ACM. 37:9, September 1994, pg. 17. INTUITIVE EQUALS FAMILIAR By Raskin, J. One of the most common terms of praise for an interface is to say that it is "intuitive" (the word should have been "intuitable" but we will bow to convention). Yet the Human Computer Interaction (HCI) literature rarely mentions the word, and for good reason. This note attempts to clarify the meaning of "intuitive" for non-HCI specialists. The impression that the phrase "this interface feature is intuitive" leaves is that the interface works the way the user doe

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