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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. These ideas include content persistence, modelessness, a nucleus with commands instead of applications, navigation using text search and a zooming user interface (ZUI). The system was being implemented at the Raskin Center for Humane Interfaces under Raskin's leadership. Since his death in February 2005 the project is being continued by his team.
Archy in large part builds on Raskin's earlier work with the Apple Macintosh, Canon Cat, and SwyftWare, and can be described as a combination of Canon Cat's text processing functions with a modern ZUI. Archy is more radically different from established systems than are Sun Microsystems' Project Looking Glass and Microsoft Research's Task Gallery prototype.
Archy used to be called The Humane Environment ("THE"). On January 1, 2005, Raskin announced the new name, and that Archy would be further developed by the non-profit Raskin Center for Humane Interfaces. The name "Archy" is a play on the Center's acronym, R-CHI, and an allusion to Don Marquis' archy and mehitabel poetry, which is now in the public domain. Thus, the system is named after a bug.
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Jef Raskin Center for Humane Interfaces - Official site advancing the work of the author of The Humane Interface. Most complete site on Archy, was THE, The Humane Environment. Also writings on diverse topics, manual, specification, screenshot, bug list, CVS, downloads. [Open Source, GPL]
Observer: Keeping Interface Simple - Summary of newspaper story, useful forum comments. [Linux Today]
Archy - Clear description of Archy (was THE), divided into interface components. [Wikipedia]
Crafting a Revolution - Interview of Aza Raskin on THE (Archy), and his father Jef. [ACM: Ubiquity]
Down With GUIs - By Jef Raskin. Article stressing that GUIs are not human-compatible. As long as we hang on to interfaces as we now know them, computers will remain inherently frustrating, upsetting, stressful. [Wired 1.06]
In Appreciation of Jef Raskin - Brief praise of Raskin, and critique of Archy zooming interface, with references, by usability expert Don Norman who was at Apple with Raskin, during the early years.
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Jef Raskin's Humane Environment - SourceForge site, with description, download, bug reports, some old news.
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osOpinion: Raskin on 'Raskin on OS X' - Summary of newspaper story, useful forum comments. [Linux Today]
The Humane Environment - Brief news story, and forum comments in great abundance, more than usual. Many varied opinions. [Slashdot]
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The Humane Environment - Brief announcement of first THE (Archy) release, with over 50 forum comments. [OSNews.com]
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The Humane Interface - Book review of The Human Interface: New Directions for Interface Design, by Jef Raskin, and the usual mass of forum comments. Many varied opinions. [Slashdot]
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The Humane Interface: New Directions for Designing Interactive Systems - By Jef Raskin; Addison-Wesley, 2000, ISBN 0201379376. Guide to interactive system design, reflects author experience and vision, shows many extant interfaces are dead ends, making computers easier to use needs new approaches. [publisher website]
THE Key to User-Friendly Computers? - By Alex Salkever. Raskin helped design Apple's classic user interface. He is working on a new system that could be a big improvement. Brief accessible analysis. [BusinessWeek]
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