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Aza Raskin
Aza Raskin, 2005
Born1984
California, USA
EducationMath, Physics B.S. (University of Chicago)
Physics, Computation and Neural Systems Ph.D. (Caltech, dropped out)
Occupation(s)interface guru, entrepreneur
Parent(s)Jef Raskin, Linda S. Blum
Websitehttp://www.azarask.in

Aza Raskin (born 1984) is an American design expert[1] and interface guru.[2] He is the son of noted human-computer interface expert Jef Raskin.

Biography

Raskin gave his first talk on user interfaces at age 10 at the local San Francisco chapter of SIGCHI.[3] By 20, he was speaking internationally.[4] He holds bachelor degrees in math and physics from the University of Chicago.[5] He attended Caltech briefly as a Ph.D. student in Physics, continuing the dark matter research he had participated in at both the University of Chicago and University of Tokyo.[citation needed] The University of Chicago was the only school Raskin ever completed, having left middle school, high school, and graduate school.[citation needed]

In 2004, Aza Raskin worked with Jef Raskin at the Raskin Center for Humane Interfaces on Archy, a new user interface paradigm.[6] The next year, he founded Humanized Inc. to continue work on the Archy paradigm. At Humanized, he created the language-based service-oriented Enso software.

In 2008, Raskin and the other Humanized employees were part of a hire-out by the Mozilla Corporation.[7] Raskin is currently the head of user experience at Mozilla Labs[5] and has worked on several labs projects including Ubiquity[8] and Firefox Mobile.[9]

Raskin is a successful entrepreneur having founded two other companies, including Songza, a music meta-search tool, and Bloxes, which sells furniture made out of cardboard.[10] Songza was acquired in late 2008 by Amazon-backed Amie Street.[11][12] He also has a number of smaller projects like Algorithm Ink, which generates art from a formal grammar.[13]

Notes

  1. ^ Campofiorito, Matteo (September 1, 2008). "Interview with Aza Raskin, Head of User Experience for Mozilla Labs". oneopensource. Retrieved 2009-03-06.
  2. ^ Shankland, Stephen (March 8, 2009). "Firefox, too, revamping new-tab behavior". CNET News. Retrieved 2009-03-10.
  3. ^ Raskin, Jef (September 13, 1994). "The Interface Paradox". BayCHI Monthly Program. Retrieved 2009-03-06. {{cite conference}}: Unknown parameter |booktitle= ignored (|book-title= suggested) (help); Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
  4. ^ Raskin, Aza (2004). "The Failure of Applications". EuroPython 2004. Gothenburg, Sweden. {{cite conference}}: Unknown parameter |booktitle= ignored (|book-title= suggested) (help)
  5. ^ a b Raskin, Aza. "Aza's Thoughts - About me". Retrieved 2009-03-06.
  6. ^ McCarthy, Jack (February 28, 2005). "Mac creator Jef Raskin dies of cancer". InfoWorld. Retrieved 2008-03-06.
  7. ^ Raskin, Aza (January 16, 2008). "Joining Mozilla". Humanized. Retrieved 2009-03-06.
  8. ^ Raskin, Aza (August 26, 2008). "Introducing Ubiquity". Mozilla Labs. Retrieved 2009-03-06.
  9. ^ Schonfeld, Erick (June 11, 2008). "Zoom, Pan, Throw: A Peek At What Firefox Mobile Could Be". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2009-03-06.
  10. ^ Wenzel, Elsa (March 7, 2008). "Cardboard key to a 'green' office space". CNET News. Retrieved 2009-03-06.
  11. ^ Aime Street Swallows Songza
  12. ^ http://bub.blicio.us/interview-with-amie-street-why-keep-acquisition-of-songza-a-secret/
  13. ^ Algorithm Ink

References

Writing

Talks

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