Time to ditch the Mac’s Finder and Desktop?

16 years ago

“Jef Raskin was a human-computer interface expert. He died a few years ago. Raskin is best known for his work on the original Mac back in the late 1970s and early 1980s,” Ron McElfresh reports for Mac 360.

“Much of the Mac’s Desktop and Finder metaphor came from Raskin,” McElfresh reports. “That was then. This is now. The way we manage files, apps, and interact with our Mac hasn’t changed much since Raskin’s Mac efforts went public in 1984.”

McElfresh reports, “It’s still a Desktop and Finder world. What’s the next great thing? Maybe it’s touch. But not touch in the way we use our iPhones. Touch in the way we use a Mac. Only different. Better? Maybe.”

“‘Raskin’ is a Finder replacement which changes the way we interact with our Macs. Finder? Desktop? Goodbye. And, with the right equipment attached to your Mac, [interaction that’s] perhaps easier, perhaps better, certainly different.”