Workshop #5: Design - Websites more User-centric
To err is human. We make mistakes. Our users make mistakes. It's a fact that our interfaces must handle gracefully. The first law of interface design is that "A computer shall not harm your work or, through inaction, allow your work to come to harm", yet the interfaces we design routinely ignore this idea. Is it possible to design interfaces that are so fault tolerant that no matter how many mistakes we make, that our work will never got lost?
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About Aza Raskin
Aza has over six years of professional interface design and consulting experience. He is the son of Jef Raskin, the inventor of the Macintosh project, and so has 22 years of informal interface design training. Aza 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 in math and physics. For recreation, he does Judo, speaks Japanese, and invents in his lab. He also enjoys playing the French Horn, which has taken him all over the world. Be warned: Aza is an incorrigible punster, so please do not incorrige.
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