Aza Raskin

Aza Raskin
Aza Raskin, 2005
Born	February 1, 1984 California, USA
Education	Math, Physics B.S. (University of Chicago)
Occupation	interface designer, entrepreneur
Parent(s)	Jef Raskin, Linda S. Blum
Website	http://www.azarask.in

Aza Raskin (born February 1, 1984) is an American interface designer. He is the son of human-computer interface expert Jef Raskin.

Raskin has been noted for continuing his father's work in project Archy, for working as head of user experience at Mozilla Labs and lead designer for Firefox, and for his participation in various start-up companies.

Raskin gave his first talk on user interfaces at age 10 at the local San Francisco chapter of SIGCHI. He holds bachelor's degrees in mathematics and physics from the University of Chicago.

In 2004, Aza Raskin worked with Jef Raskin at the Raskin Center for Humane Interfaces on Archy, a new user interface paradigm. 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.

During the devastating earthquake in Haiti in January 2010, Raskin mobilized with a group of other entrepreneurs (including Joshua Rosen, the art director of Steven Spielberg's movie A.I.) to create a crowd-source Web site to turn real-time information streams into meaningful map data, used by several major non-governmental organizations helping on the group in Haiti hosted at Haiti.com.

Raskin is also an active phishing researcher, best known for discovering the tabnabbing attack; the technique takes advantage of open browser tabs to launch phishing sites without the user's knowledge.

He also has a number of smaller projects like Algorithm Ink (based on Context Free) which generates art from a formal grammar.

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