Aza Raskin (son of Jef who you maybe familiar with), head of UX at Mozilla Labs, shows off some very neat designs being considered for Mozilla Mobile.

Check it out if you hadn’t already;

Maybe I’m a little undereducated in what Aza is saying above. He specifically states the interface does not allow multi-touch based interaction, but utilises a form of single touch interaction. The problem is that he then goes on to use gesture based scrolling (in moving up and down – Aza calls it ‘Kinetic Scrolling’) . Now as I believe it, single input touch screens do not allow gesture based interactions (i.e. the typical touch screen devices you see dotted around city centres). Therefore, the device must be using Frustrated Total Internal Reflection, which allows gesture support and multi touch interaction. Meaning, why have the technology there and not use it ? – I’m wondering does Apple own the patents ? – I don’t know, its something I would have to look at (I’m fairly sure they don’t, just look at Surface). In terms of accessibility, zooming in and out of web pages works amazingly well from multi-touch interaction, it makes sense to use the technology available, doesn’t it?

From the video I got the impression it was something they went against in terms of design decisions but the problem I have is WHY?  

I suggest before you leave, have a shot of the interface in action.

-Kyle