# The Anti-Mac User Interface (Don Gentner and Jakob Nielsen)

<http://www.nngroup.com/articles/anti-mac-interface/>

- Host: [nngroup.com](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/hosts/nngroup.com/)
- Saved: July 5, 2015 (2015-07-05T15:45:35Z)
- Record: https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/98bbc5f6b3e5/
- JSON: https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/98bbc5f6b3e5.json

## From the page (probably an excerpt, not Jamie's words)

We reverse all of the core design principles behind the Macintosh human interface guidelines to arrive at the characteristics of the Internet desktop.

## Facts

- Kind: [Page](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/kinds/page/)

## Same host

- [Empathy Mapping: The First Step in Design Thinking](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/1b8cda68ce57/) (nngroup.com, February 1, 2018)
- [The Distribution of Users’ Computer Skills: Worse Than You Think](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/d1ba3714c51a/) (nngroup.com, September 26, 2019)
- [AI: First New UI Paradigm in 60 Years](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/9be007cc3291/) (nngroup.com, June 20, 2023)
- [Four AI Superpowers: Where AI Improves Products](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/3a537d580c65/) (nngroup.com, April 5, 2025)

## Saved the same week

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- [The Software Engineer’s Guide to Negotiating a Raise](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/8463bc1c12b3/) (mgadams.com, July 4, 2015)
- [Company Logo API](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/b35afc565f0f/) (blog.clearbit.com, July 4, 2015)
- [Streams: Mail 3.0 concept](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/a1fcf9b3de11/) (tonsky.me, July 5, 2015)

## Elsewhere

- Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.nngroup.com/articles/anti-mac-interface/