A Well-designed And Humane Interface Does Not

Imagine If Every Thursday Your Shoes Exploded If You Tied Them The Usual Way. This Happens To Us All The Time With Computers, And Nobody Thinks Of Complaining.

As Far As The Customer Is Concerned, The Interface Is The Product.

If I Am Correct, The Use Of A Product Based On Modelessness And Monoty Would Soon Become So Habitual As To Be Nearly Addictive, Leading To A User Population Devoted To And Loyal To The Product.

The System Should Treat All User Input As Sacred.

I Am Only A Footnote, But Proud Of The Footnote I Have Become. My Subsequent Work On Eliciting Principles And Developing The Theory Of Interface Design, So That Many People Will Be Able To Do What I Did Is Probably Also Footnote-worthy. In Looking Back At This Turn-of-the-century Period, The Rise Of A Worldwide Network Will Be Seen As The Most Significant Part Of The Computer Revolution.