Another good article about Jef Raskin:

Whenever you point and click and drag an icon around on a computer screen, you are doing so thanks to Jef Raskin, a pioneering computer engineer and father of the Macintosh computer. He died over the weekend, at 61, of pancreatic cancer.

Contrary to Silicon Valley lore it was Raskin and not Apple Computer (nasdaq: AAPL - news - people ) Chief Executive Steve Jobs who discovered and saw the marketability of technologies that would kick start the PC revolution.

and an interesting article written by the man himself:

Microsoft Word requires at least 30% more keystrokes and 100% more mouse moves to accomplish certain editing tasks than would an optimal word processor. Decreasing physical work not only saves time but also decreases incidents of repetitive stress injury. Good design can eliminate many of the steps that are most damaging to nerves and tendons.