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DigiBarn Friends: Jef Raskin, A Life of Design - Computer museum with many resources: photo galleries, information on early Apple I/II, Macintosh, IAI Swyft, Canon Cat, user interface experiments, other Raskin inventions; interviews, slides, remembrances by computer scientists.
Jef Raskin A to Z - List of about 60 articles by Raskin, with links to them.
Passing of a Pioneer - Article reviews Jef Raskin's career. Laptopical.com.
Jef Raskin - Growing biography, with links to related topics. [Wikipedia]
Jef Raskin the Movie - Film about Raskin being made via Internet collaboration. Interviews, comments, sample footage, Raskin Lectures on user Interface. Short segments use Creative Commons license.
JefRaskin.com - Raskin's original website, now part of the Raskin Center for Humane Interfaces; thought-provoking essays on diverse topics, work on Archy, links.
Articles from Jef Raskin about the History of the Macintosh - Two sizable documents: Recollections of the Macintosh Project, More Historical Facts. Links to Bruce Horn letters.
Talk Time: Jef Raskin - Frank, brief interview, criticism of Macintosh, thoughts on useful user interfaces, Hypercard, progress in computing. [Guardian Unlimited]
The Joy of Tech - Touching memorial comic, shows a Macintosh thanking Raskin.
UserFriendly - Touching memorial comic, features hill topped with an Apple tree.

Jef Raskin - Jef Raskin (March 9, 1943–February 26, 2005) was an American human-computer interface expert best-known for starting the Macintosh project for Apple Computer in the late 1970s.
Aza Raskin - Aza Raskin is a user interface designer and president of Humanized, Inc. He is the son of noted human-computer interface expert Jef Raskin.
Principles of User Interface Design - There are two Laws of Interface Design (attributed to Jef Raskin in his book, The Humane Interface) that are considered at very early stages. They are based on the fictional laws of robotics created by Isaac Asimov.
Joanna Hoffman - Joanna Hoffman was an Apple Computer employee in the 1980s when she worked on the Apple Macintosh team in 1984. Before being hired as the fifth member of the team in September 1980 by Jef Raskin, she was a physicist and archeologist.
Archy - Archy is a proposed radically new system for interacting with many kinds of computers. Designed by human-computer interface expert Jef Raskin, it embodies his ideas and established results about human-centered design described in his book The Humane Interface.