{{short description|American programmer (born 1953)}} {{Infobox person | name = Andy Hertzfeld | image = Andy Hertzfeld 1985 (cropped).jpg | caption = Hertzfeld in 1985 | birth_name = Andrew Jay Hertzfeld | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1953|4|6}} | birth_place = Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. | death_date = | death_place = | known_for = co-creation of original Macintosh computer | occupation = Software engineer | alma_mater = {{plainlist| * Brown University * University of California, Berkeley }} | spouse = {{marriage|Joyce McClure |1998}} | children = }}
'''Andrew Jay Hertzfeld''' (born April 6, 1953) is an American software engineer who was a member of Apple Computer's original Macintosh development team during the 1980s. After buying an Apple II in January 1978, he went to work for Apple Computer from August 1979 until March 1984, where he was a designer for the Macintosh system software.
Since leaving Apple, Hertzfeld has co-founded three companies: Radius in 1986, General Magic in 1990, and Eazel in 1999. In 2002, he helped Mitch Kapor promote open-source software with the Open Source Applications Foundation.
Hertzfeld worked at Google from 2005 to 2013, where, in 2011, he was the key designer of the Circles user interface in Google+.
==Career== ===Apple Computer (1979–1984)=== After graduating from Brown University with a computer science degree in 1975, Hertzfeld attended graduate school at the University of California, Berkeley. In 1978, he bought an Apple II computer and soon began developing software for it. He went on to write for ''Call-A.P.P.L.E.'' and ''Dr. Dobb's Journal'' and soon came to the attention of Apple Computer.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last1=Hertzfeld |first1=Andy |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VQQCtFT1CGIC |title=Revolution in The Valley [Paperback]: The Insanely Great Story of How the Mac Was Made |last2=Hertzfeld |first2=Lothar |last3=Capps |first3=Steve |date=2005 |publisher=O'Reilly Media, Inc. |isbn=978-0-596-00719-5 |language=en}}</ref>
He was hired by Apple Computer as a systems programmer in 1979 and developed the Apple Silentype printer firmware and wrote the firmware<ref>M&R Enterprises, Sup'R'Terminal Manual, page 47, 1980.</ref> for the Sup'R'Terminal, the first 80-column card for the Apple II. In the early 1980s, he invited his high school friend, artist Susan Kare, to join Apple in order to help design what would become standard Macintosh icons.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Susan Kare, the brains behind the Mac's famous icons and fonts |url=https://www.engadget.com/2014-04-04-susan-kare-the-brains-behind-the-macs-famous-icons-and-fonts.html |access-date=2022-11-04 |website=Engadget |date=15 July 2016 |language=en-US}}</ref>
With the first Macintosh, Hertzfeld wrote an icon editor and font editor so that Susan Kare could design the symbols used in the operating system.<ref name=YORKERKARE>{{cite magazine|title=The Woman Who Gave the Macintosh a Smile|url=https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/the-woman-who-gave-the-macintosh-a-smile|access-date=November 14, 2018|magazine=The New Yorker|date=April 19, 2018}}</ref>
Hertzfeld was a member of the design team for the Apple Macintosh, which was conceived by human–computer interface expert Jef Raskin.<ref name="hertzfeld198402">{{cite news | url=https://archive.org/stream/byte-magazine-1984-02/1984_02_BYTE_09-02_Benchmarks#page/n39/mode/2up | title=Macintosh System Software Overview | work=BYTE Magazine | date=February 1984 | access-date=22 October 2013 | last=Hertzfeld|first=Andy|author-link=Andy Hertzfeld | page=38}}</ref><ref name="lemmons198402">{{cite news | url=https://archive.org/stream/byte-magazine-1984-02/1984_02_BYTE_09-02_Benchmarks#page/n59/mode/2up | title=An Interview: The Macintosh Design Team | work=BYTE Magazine | date=February 1984 | access-date=22 October 2013 | last=Lemmons|first=Phil | page=58 | type=interview}}</ref> After a shakeup in the Apple II team and Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak's brief departure from the company due to a plane crash,<ref name=TheVerge>{{cite web|title=Steve Wozniak on Newton, Tesla, and why the original Macintosh was a 'lousy' product|date=June 27, 2013 |url=https://www.theverge.com/2013/6/27/4468314/steve-wozniak-on-how-the-newton-changed-his-life|access-date=August 7, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160312014832/http://www.theverge.com/2013/6/27/4468314/steve-wozniak-on-how-the-newton-changed-his-life|archive-date=March 12, 2016}}</ref> co-founder Steve Jobs took control of the nearly two-year-old Macintosh team in February 1981 and added Hertzfeld to it at his request. Working for Bud Tribble alongside Bill Atkinson and Burrell Smith, Hertzfeld became a primary software architect of the Macintosh Operating System, which was considered revolutionary in its use of the graphical user interface (GUI) where Raskin also made contributions.
Hertzfeld's business card at Apple listed his title as ''Software Wizard''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://gizmodo.com/5917343/how-steve-jobs-caused-the-funniest-and-weirdest-apple-business-card-ive-ever-seen|title=How Steve Jobs Caused the Funniest and Weirdest Apple Business Card I've Ever Seen|last=Diaz|first=Jesus|website=Gizmodo|date=11 June 2012 |language=en-US|access-date=2016-03-14}}</ref> He wrote large portions of the Macintosh's original system software, including much of the ROM code, the User Interface Toolbox, and a number of innovative components now standard in many graphic user interfaces, like the Control Panel and Scrapbook.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1">{{Cite web |last=Smith |first=Gina |date=2007-12-03 |title=Unsung innovators: Andy Hertzfeld, technical lead for the original Macintosh system software |url=https://www.computerworld.com/article/2540052/unsung-innovators--andy-hertzfeld--technical-lead-for-the-original-macintosh-system-softwar.html |access-date=2022-11-04 |website=Computerworld |language=en}}</ref>
===After Apple (1984–present)=== After leaving Apple in 1984, Hertzfeld co-founded three new companies: Radius (1986), General Magic (1990), and Eazel (1999).<ref name=":1" /> At Eazel, he helped to create the Nautilus file manager for Linux's GNOME desktop.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Kocienda |first=Ken |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=h-RhDwAAQBAJ |title=Creative Selection: Inside Apple's Design Process During the Golden Age of Steve Jobs |date=2018-09-06 |publisher=Pan Macmillan |isbn=978-1-5290-0474-8 |language=en}}</ref> He volunteered for the Open Source Applications Foundation in 2002 and 2003, writing early prototypes of Chandler, their information manager. In 1996, Hertzfeld was interviewed by Robert X. Cringely on the television documentary ''Triumph of the Nerds'',<ref>{{Cite web |last=Haslam |first=Karen |date=June 13, 2020 |title=14 Steve Jobs movies and documentaries you can watch now! |url=https://www.macworld.com/article/674013/14-steve-jobs-movies-and-documentaries-you-can-watch-now.html |access-date=2022-11-04 |website=Macworld |language=en}}</ref> and was again interviewed by Cringely on NerdTV in 2005.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Reimer |first=Jeremy |date=2005-09-08 |title=NerdTV goes on the air with an interview with Andy Hertzfeld |url=https://arstechnica.com/uncategorized/2005/09/5293-2/ |access-date=2022-11-04 |website=Ars Technica |language=en-us}}</ref>
In early 2004, he started [http://www.folklore.org/ folklore.org], a Web site devoted to collective storytelling that contains dozens of anecdotes about the development of the original Macintosh. The stories have been collected in an O'Reilly book, ''Revolution in the Valley'', published in December 2004.<ref name=":0" />
In August 2005, Hertzfeld joined Google.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/22/technology/22google.html | work=The New York Times | title=Where Does Google Plan to Spend $4 Billion? | first=John | last=Markoff |author-link=John Markoff | date=August 22, 2005 | access-date=April 25, 2010}}</ref> On June 28, 2011, Google announced Google+, its latest attempt at social networking. Hertzfeld was the key designer of the Google+ Circles interface.<ref>{{cite magazine|last=Levy|first=Steven|author-link=Steven Levy|url= https://www.wired.com/epicenter/2011/06/inside-google-plus-social/all/1 |title=Inside Google+ — How the Search Giant Plans to Go Social|magazine=Wired|date=June 28, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Ard |first=Scott |title=Google+ contributor and Mac pioneer talks with CNET (Q&A) |url=https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/google-contributor-and-mac-pioneer-talks-with-cnet-q-a/ |access-date=2022-11-04 |website=CNET |language=en}}</ref> He also worked on Picasa, and Gmail's profile image selector. He retired from Google in July 2013.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://techcrunch.com/2017/02/26/interview-andy-hertzfeld/ |title=Listen to Andy Hertzfeld on Steve Jobs movie, General Magic, and his time at Google |date=February 26, 2017 |last=O'Hear |first=Steve |work=TechCrunch}}</ref>
As of October 2018, he is an investor of the startup Spatial.<ref name=FASTSPATIAL>{{cite magazine|title=Video conferencing sucks. Could "augmented" meetings replace it?|url=https://www.fastcompany.com/90254734/video-conferencing-sucks-could-augmented-meetings-replace-it|access-date=November 14, 2018|magazine=Fast Company|date=October 24, 2018}}</ref>
==In media== Hertzfeld was portrayed by Elden Henson in the 2013 film ''Jobs''.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/2012/07/10/thesps-click-with-steve-jobs-indie-kevin-dunn-elden-henson-others-join-biopic/|title=Thesps click with Steve 'Jobs' indie: Kevin Dunn, Elden Henson, others join biopic|work=Chicago Tribune|access-date=2016-03-14}}</ref> He was later played by actor Michael Stuhlbarg in the 2015 film ''Steve Jobs''.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/arts-and-entertainment/wp/2015/10/16/aaron-sorkin-doesnt-want-people-calling-the-steve-jobs-biopic-a-biopic/|title=Aaron Sorkin doesn't want people calling the Steve Jobs biopic a biopic|last=Merry|first=Stephanie|date=2015-10-16|newspaper=The Washington Post|language=en-US|issn=0190-8286|access-date=2016-03-14}}</ref> Hertzfeld stated "almost nothing in it is how it really happened" about the ''Steve Jobs'' film, and that the film ultimately was not aiming for realism.<ref name=RECODE>{{cite news|title=Original Mac Team Member Andy Hertzfeld Talks About the Hollywood 'Steve Jobs' (Q&A)|url=https://www.recode.net/2015/10/2/11619128/original-mac-team-member-andy-hertzfeld-talks-about-the-hollywood|access-date=November 14, 2018|work=Recode|date=October 2, 2015}}</ref>
==Personal life== Hertzfeld born into a Jewish family and attended Harriton High School.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Facts & Stats - Lower Merion School District |url=https://www.lmsd.org/harritonhs/about/stats |access-date=2023-12-20 |website=www.lmsd.org |language=en-US}}</ref> He and his wife live in Palo Alto, California.<ref name=RECODE/>
==References== {{reflist}}
===Bibliography=== * {{cite book|last=Hertzfeld|first=Andy|author-link=Andy Hertzfeld | year=2004 | title=Revolution in the Valley| title-link=Revolution in the Valley|publisher=O'Reilly Books|isbn=0-596-00719-1}} * {{cite book|last=Deutschman|first=Alan|year=2000|title=The Second Coming of Steve Jobs |publisher=Broadway Books|isbn=0-7679-0433-8|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/secondcomingofst00alan}}
==External links== {{commons}} * [http://www.differnet.com Differnet.com] – Andy Hertzfeld's personal homepage; a collection of Web sites designed and/or hosted by him * ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=6ASeeTZbqCQC Revolution in the Valley]'' - Andy Hertzfeld's book about the development of the Macintosh. * [http://folklore.org Folklore.org] – Macintosh Folklore, a web site that contains all of the stories in the book, and more * [https://web.archive.org/web/20050911124011/http://www.pbs.org/cringely/nerdtv/transcripts/001.html NerdTV interview] (September 2005) with Hertzfeld by PBS's Robert X. Cringely, available in audio, video, and text transcript * [http://www.itconversations.com/shows/detail415.html ITConversations] Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Andy Hertzfeld * [http://JohnWantsAnswers.com John Wants Answers] [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gICwMQQ48Dk Interview] with Andy Hertzfeld along with Steve Wozniak and Daniel Kottke about the biopic ''Jobs''. (Episode 041 (4.5) - September 30, 2013)
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