{"id":778,"date":"2008-04-13T13:39:46","date_gmt":"2008-04-13T18:39:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2008\/04\/13\/aza-raskin-on-mozilla-and-user-interfaces"},"modified":"2008-04-13T13:39:48","modified_gmt":"2008-04-13T18:39:48","slug":"aza-raskin-on-mozilla-and-user-interfaces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2008\/04\/13\/aza-raskin-on-mozilla-and-user-interfaces","title":{"rendered":"Aza Raskin on Mozilla and User Interfaces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aza Raskin from Mozilla, spoke largely about usability and user interface design. Judging from his <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Aza_Raskin\">Wikipedia entry<\/a>, he&#8217;s been doing this for a long time and is very passionate about interfaces. It was very hard to see his slides (noted problem, too much sunlight), so I just attempted to make random bits of notes from his talk. His slides, may or may not be available, but he did mention that searching for a talk titled &#8220;Don&#8217;t Make Me Click&#8221;, was the basis for his LugRadio Live USA talk. Turns out, it was a Google Tech Talk, available on Youtube &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=EuELwq2ThJE\">Don&#8217;t Make Me Click<\/a> (~65 minutes). Now for the sparse notes&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>You already use a command line interface. Typed pine before? Or slrn? Now you just type gmail.com or nytimes.com. This is an interesting analogy&#8230; the command line and the location bar.<\/p>\n<p>Intuitiveness vs. ease of use? There&#8217;s a difference. The iPhone interface isn&#8217;t exactly intuitive, but with all the advertising available around, when you got one, you knew what to do, and you got ease of use.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Don&#8217;t copy, do something else&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>1. Interface design is about how your software is used.<br \/>2. Usability is architectural (pretty interfaces\/devices, you will use better)<br \/>3. Well designed command lines are good for usability. &#8220;Your users don&#8217;t know what features they want&#8221; &#8211; architect well, for your user. Learn a lot from Microsoft Word print dialog (which allows you to choose which pages to print)<br \/>4. Don&#8217;t blindly copy, find another box to think in<br \/>5. Don&#8217;t design separately for users and experts. 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I made notes, some people have already shared slides (and I've linked to them). 5 Keys to a Successful Contributor\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Opensource&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"CLS17","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/c1.staticflickr.com\/5\/4168\/34354720952_c420c9d4d4.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":538,"url":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2007\/04\/27\/diggcom-scales-japanese-character-set-data-warehousing","url_meta":{"origin":778,"position":4},"title":"Digg.com scales; Japanese Character Set; Data Warehousing","date":"27\/4\/2007","format":false,"excerpt":"I missed a couple of talks that I'd really have liked to attend, for various reasons (probably the fact that at the MySQL conferences, staff also have a tonne of meetings and customers\/people to meet). Thanks to the great bloggers, I don't feel so bad for missing such talks. 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