Apple employee number 31 and head of the team that created the first Macintosh, Jef Raskin, has died at the age of 61. Raskin pioneered using a simple graphical interface in his desire to make computers easier to use. But despite initiating the project, Raskin never saw the Macintosh make its 1984 debut.

Following a bitter dispute with Apple CEO Steve Jobs, Raskin left Apple in 1982 and founded another company devoted to improving computer interfaces. Nonetheless, he is remembered by Macintosh team members as a critical force behind many computing innovations seen today. Raskin, however, was not a fan of Mac OS X, which he characterized as inhumane and complicated.