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

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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