An effort to document and in-turn learn about the great minds who directly or indirectly contributed to the world of ‘Digital Experience Design’

Douglas Engelbart

(January 30, 1925 — July 2, 2013)

An American engineer, considered the founder of the field ‘Human Computer Interaction’; his most special contribution being the creation of the ‘Computer Mouse’, Hypertext, network of computers and precursors to GUI

‘Mother of all Demos’ is one of the remarkable event associated with his name.

Jeff Raskin

(March 9, 1943 — February 26, 2005)

An American Human-Computer expert known for his conception and starting of Macintosh project (named after his favourite apple McIntosh)at Apple in 1979.

One of his publication ‘The Humane Interface’ continues to give new directions to the perception of ergonomics and usability of systems by advocating the lack of planning in current systems.

His son Aza Raskin has been continuing his legacy and has been leading teams at Mozilla, Firefox and is a design-entrepreneur.