Firefox redo on the philosophy of Taoism

In the Mozilla development team replenishment. Three people from the Humanized company are invited to the staff. It should be noted that Humanized is a small company that specializes in testing usability programs and developing an innovative UI. Actually, it consisted of three people, after hiring which the company, apparently, will cease to exist.



Mozilla director John Lilly says he expects powerful creative work from three new employees. Basically, they will work on the Firefox browser, but their knowledge will be useful for other Mozilla Labs projects.



John Lilley said he met with Aza Raskin, the president of Humanized, the son of Jeff Raskin, the creator of the Macintosh computer, at the Ubuntu Developer Summit conference last year. There, Ruskin made an impressive presentation on interface designs and put forward the idea that the ideal design is no design at all, and the software should comply with the principle of w-wei, which in Taoist philosophy means action through inaction. For a person, w-wei are some spontaneous, natural and intuitive actions, the effectiveness of which derives from their own nature, and on the meaning of which one should not even think (approximately as a child’s behavior). It is assumed that a harmoniously developed person should not perform any active actions, but only w-wei.

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John Lilly was amazed by the new ideas and immediately decided to invite Ruskin and his colleagues to his Mozilla Labs.



via Ars Technica