{"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":"https:\/\/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. Make things intuitive for all<\/p>\n<p>Technorati Tags: <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/lugradio\" rel=\"tag\">lugradio<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/lugradio%20live%20usa\" rel=\"tag\">lugradio live usa<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/aza%20raskin\" rel=\"tag\">aza raskin<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/usability\" rel=\"tag\">usability<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/interfaces\" rel=\"tag\">interfaces<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/mozilla\" rel=\"tag\">mozilla<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aza Raskin from Mozilla, spoke largely about usability and user interface design. Judging from his Wikipedia entry, 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4vJD-cy","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}