

Raskin was named head of user experience at Mozilla Labs. In 2008, Humanized employees, including Raskin, joined the Mozilla Corporation as part of a hire-out. He has also given a TED talk about new humane directions for computing. In Wired UK magazine’s series, Rebooting Britain, Raskin advocated for iterative governance, and was featured on the magazine’s cover. He also has a number of smaller projects, such as Algorithm Ink (based on Context Free), which generates art from a formal grammar.

Raskin is an active phishing researcher, best known for discovering the tabnabbing attack, which takes advantage of open browser tabs to launch phishing sites without the user's knowledge. The data was used by several major non-governmental organizations who were helping on the ground in Haiti. Artificial Intelligence), to create a crowdsourced website, hosted at, which turned information about the earthquake’s effects, in real time, into interpretable map data.
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ĭuring the devastating earthquake in Haiti in January 2010, Raskin collaborated with a group of other entrepreneurs (including Joshua Rosen, the art director of Steven Spielberg's movie A.I. In 2005, after his father’s death, he founded Humanized, Inc., where he continued working on the Archy paradigm and created the language-based, service-oriented Enso software. In 2004, he worked with his father, Jef Raskin, at the Raskin Center for Humane Interfaces, on the development of Archy software, which is a user interface paradigm. He holds bachelor's degrees in mathematics and physics from the University of Chicago. Ĭareer Personal projects Īza Raskin gave his first talk on user interfaces, at age 10, at a meeting of the San Francisco chapter of the Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction (SIGCHI). More recently, he has collaborated on virtual reality projects and on zooming user interface (ZUI). He is also the inventor of the infinite scroll. Raskin has continued his father's work on project Archy, has worked as the head of user experience at Mozilla Labs and as lead designer for Firefox, and has founded a number of companies. For example, it was publicly quoted by the comedian Sacha Baron Cohen, and was used by Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey to help explain the rationale for banning political advertisements on Twitter.
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The phrase is now widely used to refer to the large-scale implications of platform amplification and free speech.

Raskin coined the phrase, " freedom of speech is not freedom of reach," which was the title of an article that he wrote with Renée DiResta. In 2019, he became a member of the World Economic Forum's Global AI Council. In the podcast Your Undivided Attention, along with Tristan Harris, Raskin has talked extensively about the power of information technology and the dangers it potentially poses to modern society. Raskin is an advocate for the ethical use of technology, and has been critical of the effects that modern technology has on everyday lives and society. He is the son of Jef Raskin, a human–computer interface expert who was the initiator of the Macintosh project at Apple. He is also a writer, entrepreneur, inventor, and interface designer. Aza Raskin (born February 1, 1984) is the co-founder of the Center for Humane Technology and of the Earth Species Project.
