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Jef Raskin, the human-computer interface expert who began the Macintosh project for Apple, passed away Saturday, at age 61. Raskin, author of such books as “The Humane Interface: New Directions for Designing Interactive Systems,” reportedly died of cancer. Raskin joined Apple in 1978 as employee No. 31, but left the company in 1982 amid a dispute with Apple CEO Steve Jobs. The Macintosh was launched two years later in 1984.

Jef Raskin, one of the creators of the Macintosh, told The Guardian that the Mac does not hold the same simplicity as it once did. “Unfortunately, the Mac is now a mess,” Raskin said. “A third party manual (Pogue’s The Missing Manual) is nearly 1,000 pages, and far from complete. Apple now does development by accretion, and there is only a little difference between using a Mac and a Windows machine.”