Authors:
Aza Raskin
I'm a Mac baby. Twenty-three years ago, I was born. So was the Macintosh. Looking back, I haven't fundamentally changed since my lower-than-your-kneecap days. I'm just a larger, differently proportioned version of my younger self. Unfortunately, the same thing is also true for the GUI: It's matured, but hasn't fundamentally changed in the past 23 years. We are still stuck juggling windows in a time-wasting dance to find the application we need to get a task done. Look at a screenshot of the original Macintosh, and compare it with one of the latest versions of OSX. With the exception…
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