Aza Raskin
This personal description still has me happy — it gives me the hope ELZR Friedman talked about at the end of his MIT lecture — and, well, befuddled. I mean, how can you do so much in so little time, how? I found it on the about page of Humanized, a collaborative blog on interface design and business-to-be. (He is the son of Jef Raskin WP btw, that explains some of it.)
Aza Raskin
President
Aza brings over six years of interface design and consulting experience to Humanized. He gave his first talk on interface design at his local San Francisco chapter of SIGCHI at the age of 13, got hooked, and has been speaking ever since. By the age of 17, he was talking and consulting internationally; by age 19, he was coauthoring a physics textbook because he was too young to buy alcohol; and at age 21, he started drinking alcohol and co-founded Humanized. Aza has also done Dark Matter research at both Tokyo University and the University of Chicago, from where he graduated with honors in math and physics. For recreation, he does Judo, speaks Japanese, and invents in his lab. He also enjoys playing the French Horn WP, which has brought him all over the world as a soloist. Be warned: Aza is an incorrigible punster, so please do not incorrige.
On the flip side, it cheers me up that such blatant A geniuses (read the entire about page for the rest of the profiles) are interested in my chosen area too. Interface design will be the art form of the twenty-first century. Mind my words.
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Shocking as your e-mail was, I am now relieved by seeing this post where you added Aza’s picture. I mean, he might be a genius, but this guy couldn’t ingeniate his way to a fashion sense. Pop-up collar? oh please
:), now you’re just being spiteful!
Hey Eliazar, I like your new look. I’ve been reading you and so many other sites through my rss reader that I forget what the sites even look like. I think Im going to have to skip the feed for you and come right here. Your posts make a lot more sense now :)
Oh boy, then I guess it really looked bad before, no? And well, some posts have a lot of styling in them, so yes, they probably won’t make much sense in an RSS reader.
Now he’s involved with the user experience aspect of Mozilla, so you may expect Firefox and Thunderbird to get to be easier and more fun to use as time proceeds.