Alex Faaborg

Happy iPhone day everyone (iPhonemas?, iPhonukkah?). Steve Jobs is casting the release of the iPhone as a revolutionary event. On days like this it’s hard not to think back to previous revolutionary technologies, especially the ones that could have changed everything. One revolutionary technology in particular, also from Apple, and also on […]

Time to break out your favorite prototyping tool or image editing software, Aza Raskin of Humanized is running a design challenge for dealing with tab overflow in Firefox:
Not only does the winner get a Humanized Puzzler t-shirt, but also the very real chance of their solution getting integrated into Firefox! Post your answers as blog […]

Is it possible to prove that one user interface is quantitatively better than another user interface? Is interaction design all about personal opinion? How does one tell what is good interface, and what is a bad interface? If two people disagree on a design, how do you tell who is right?
These are […]

I’m getting married! Earlier today I proposed to my girlfriend Anna Vitebsky, pictured here at the Attack of the Squirrels party for the launch of Firefox 2:

I first met Anna at our undergraduate orientation. We were each asked to say our name and a word that started with the same first letter that […]

Firefox 3 is going to provide a wide range of improvements to performance, stability, and security, and it’s also going to present several new user facing features. Here is a quick recap of design work that’s been going on in the Mozilla community over the past few weeks for Firefox 3, along with information […]