Aza Raskin

As an advocate for the ethical use of technology, Raskin is critical of the effects that modern technology has on everyday lives and society. Along with Tristan Harris, Raskin has extensively talked about the powers and potential dangers that technology poses to modern society in the podcast Your Undivided Attention. In 2019, he became a member of the World Economic Forum's Global AI Council.

In 2019, Raskin became a member of the World Economic Forum's Global AI Council. He has also said that "freedom of speech is not freedom of reach." which was the title of an article that he had written with Renee Diresta. "Freedom of speech is not freedom of reach" had also been publicly quoted by comedian Sacha Baron Cohen and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey.

Raskin was featured on the cover of Off Screen magazine in 2018. In 2019, he was included in The Art of Curiosity, the Exploratorium's 50th anniversary book. As a multimedia artist who has collaborated with various artists, he was also a guest curator for Ars Electronica's 40th anniversary in 2019, and has exhibited his artwork at an exhibition about North and South Korea.

Aza Raskin married Wendellen Li in August 2015. The couple has since divorced.

By the end of 2010, Raskin announced he had left Mozilla to begin a health-related venture at the Massive Health startup, with the goal to apply design principles to the problem of being healthy. In 2011, he received the Master of Design award from Fast Company for his work as cofounder of Massive Health. On April 16, 2012, Massive Health announced that Raskin would lead the company as Chief Vision Officer. Massive Health was acquired by Jawbone in 2013.

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. Artificial Intelligence), to create a crowdsourced website to turn real-time information streams into meaningful map data, used by several major non-governmental organizations helping on the ground in Haiti hosted at Haiti.com.

In 2010, Raskin introduced the results of his work on the Firefox team at Mozilla: Tab Candy. Organizing tabs spatially, Tab Candy allowed the user to "organize browsing, to see all of our tabs at once, and focus on the task at hand".

In 2008, Humanized employees including Raskin were part of a hire-out by the Mozilla Corporation. In 2010, Raskin was appointed Creative Lead for Firefox, having previously been head of user experience at Mozilla Labs. He has worked on several labs projects including Ubiquity, Firefox for mobile, and wrote the original specification for the Geolocation API.

Raskin has founded two other companies besides Humanized, including Songza, a music meta-search tool, and Bloxes, which sold furniture made out of cardboard. Songza was acquired in late 2008 by Amazon-backed Amie Street. Songza was eventually bought by Google and now powers much of Google Play. Songza was also responsible for mood and activity-based playlists.

In 2004, he worked with his father Jef Raskin at the Raskin Center for Humane Interfaces on Archy, a 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.

Aza Raskin (born February 1, 1984) is a co-founder of the Center for Humane Technology, writer, entrepreneur, inventor, and interface designer. He is the son of human-computer interface expert and initiator of the Macintosh project at Apple, Jef Raskin.