Original URL: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/12/15/aza_raskin_quits_mozilla/
Firefox UI man quits Mozilla for new health-conscious venture
Beefing up data to help you slim down
Posted in Applications, 15th December 2010 11:41 GMT
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Mozilla user-interface guru Aza Raskin is leaving the open source outfit to start a new venture called Massive Health.
He announced the move on his blog [1] yesterday, and said he wants to design personal health tools that are easier to navigate and to better understand the data a patient is dealing with.
“Each of us has a unique ability. I want to use mine – the knowledge to make products which are disruptively easier and more enjoyable to use – to change people’s lives,” he wrote.
“Life-changing not in the sense of a new social website or better email, but in making people’s lives materially better by helping them get and stay healthy. Anyone that’s been sick, overweight, or had to deal with a doctor knows that health is a field in dire need of humane design.”
The Massive Health start-up was co-founded by the company’s CEO Sutha Kamal and it’s “Backed by some of the top investors in the world” according to the outfit’s website [2].
However, Massive Health hasn’t named those investors yet. There's also a third anonymous co-founder that the company is yet to reveal to the world.
Raskin - who was the brain behind Mozilla’s so-called Tab Sets, which worked their way into beta builds of Firefox 4 - said he will leave the browser maker on 1 January 2011. ®