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Interview with Aza Raskin, Head of User Experience for Mozilla Labs

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What’s cooking in Mozilla’s labs? We decided to make some questions to Aza Raskin, user interface guru, son of the great Jef Raskin, founder of Humanized Inc., music search engine Songza and above all Head of User Experience for Mozilla Labs.

You have posted a screencast for Fennec mobile browser UI. A very interesting concept was spatial view. Can you tell us something more about that feature and the semantic placement?

The screencast for the Fennec mobile browser is actually a concept video, meaning it represents a set of ideas rather than a committed set of features that will be in Fennec. With that considered, imagine a large sheet of glass on which your tabs sit. You can move close to the glass to see and manipulate one tab, or you can standfar away from the glass to see them all in context.

Just likes pieces of paper on your desk, you can move them around and group them together in a way that makes semantic sense to you (although unlike your desk, tabs cannot overlap). If you have a couple pages open to your email, and a couple pages open to some vacation planning material, you can place the similarly-themed sites physically together. This makes excellent use of our spatial memory and muscle memory: finding where you put a page on two-dimensional plane is remarkably swift and requires little cognitive load. With the addition of semantic placement, it’s even better.

Spatial view uses space in a near optimal fashion—all pages are displayed at once in near maximum size so that extraneous interaction is not required to browse through your open pages.

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