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Jetpack Mockup Clarification & Apology to MetaLab
MetaLab recently blogged that Mozilla had used their design work without permission or attribution. At issue are early mockups for one of the Jetpack developer tools that included design elements from the MetaLab web site. While the design direction being implemented does not utilize [...]
Welcome to the new Labs website!
A while back, the Labs team decided that it was time to update the look and feel of our web presence. We took advantage of that work to also do a full upgrade to the back-end of the site. Today we’re proud and excited to [...]
What’s up with Weave?
As we work towards the 0.6 release (and eventually 1.0), I wanted to share more details on what we are working on. I am going to do this by grouping the work we are doing into four distinct categories. * Performance improvements We are concentrating [...]
Bespin 0.4: Stop, Collaborate and Code!
Bespin is back with a brand new invention! * Something grabbed a hold of us and wanted to make the coding experience more social. Our initial prototype had the notion of collaborating on code artifacts a la SubEthaEdit. We have worked with many remote teams [...]
Personas Gallery Welcomes Its 10,000th Art Design
Earlier today, the Personas community welcomed it’s 10,000th art design and 7,000th artist into the Personas gallery. The project launched six weeks ago with a friendlier look and feel, improved functionality, and an expanded set of categories. Since that time, Personas has been downloaded over [...]
Introducing the Design Challenge: Summer 09 – "Reinventing Tabs in the Browser"
Design Challenge: Summer 09 – together with IxDA and Johnny Holland After our successful inaugural Design Challenge in Spring ’09 – more than 50 students from all around the world participated and submitted nearly 20 prototypes – we are happy to announce the next Design [...]
Open Design Lunch – May 14 in Mountain View
Tomorrow Mozilla Labs is hosting an “open design lunch” at the Mozilla offices in Mountain View. A open design lunch is an informal lunchtime discussion about specific user experience design problems in web sites, web apps, desktop apps, and other things folks are working on. [...]
New Labs discussion groups!
The Labs team is constantly on the look-out for better ways to do things, better tools, and better infrastructure. One thing we realized is that the forum system we were using for project discussions wasn’t working as well as it could, so we decided to [...]
Design Challenge: Spring 09 – "Best in Class" submissions selected
Just over three months ago we launched our first Mozilla Labs Design Challenge. We invited design-focused students from around the world to participate and develop solutions to the question “What would a browser look like if the Web was all there was? No windows, no [...]
Prism 1.0 Beta Launches With New Website
Eighteen months ago, we introduced an experimental project called Prism with the goal to “to bridge the divide in the user experience between web applications and desktop apps and to explore new usability models as the line between traditional desktop and new web applications continues [...]
