A&king It Macintosh:Designing the message when the message is design An interactive productfiom Apple Compute Inc. called 'Making It Macintosh: The Macintosh Human Interface Guidelines Companion, "uses over 100 computer-based animations to ihstrate the principles of the Macintosh desktop inteface. This product is designedprimarily to teach Macintosh so&are &ve.hpers how to build the Macintosh "look andfey into their applications. It can allro be of value to human inte$ace designers, sojhare product managers, and educators and trainers in the field ofhuman interface design. 'iMaking It Macintosh" is a companion to the book, 'Macintosh Human Intersace Guidelines. "Both documents arepublished b Ah&son-We&y (1333). Lauralee Alben andJim Far& ofAlben+Faris, worked intimately with Harry Sah%r atApple and a team of experts in a shy-to&y, decision-by-decision developmentprocess over two years. This case study ihstrates some of this design process, a process that inchdedgrapbic and inteface designers on the development team from tbeproj& inception to its final implementation.

This exhibit is designed to provide a look into the process of interface design, specifically the design of an interactive CD-ROM title called Making It Macintosh: The Macintosh Human InterfaceGuidelines.The exhibit follows three congruent themes: the interactive, instructional product itselfi the history of the design and development process; and interdisciplinary collaboration.

This debate questions the presumption that the future of human-computer interaction resides in the computing sciences. We propose the following resolution: It is resolved that the CHI community should disassociate fi~om professional computing societies and realign closely with professional design societies. The four panelists will form two teams with Terry Winograd & Jim Faris arguing for the resolution and Paul Dourish & Wendy Kellogg arguing against it. It is our intention to evoke the widest possible range of viewpoints and discussion in the community on this very important topic for the future of human computer interaction.