The Anti-Mac User Interface (Don Gentner and Jakob Nielsen)Metaphors The first Macintosh principle states that the interface should be based on metaphors with the familiar noncomputer world around us. In the Macintosh interface, computer files are represented as documents in paper folders that are placed on a desktop. Files are deleted by dragging them to the trash can. Many recent interfaces have tried to overcome the limitations of the desktop metaphor
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