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Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the

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. – Jef Raskin

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Once the products task is known, design the interface first then implement to the interface design. – Jef Raskin

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