Firefox is coming to mobile. The innovation, usability, and extensibility that has propelled Firefox to 200 million users is set to do the same for Firefox in a mobile setting.
User experience is the most important aspect of having a compelling mobile product. Every bit of interaction and pixel of presentation counts when typing is laborious and screen sizes are minuscule. Many of the standard interaction models, like menus, always-present chrome, and having a cursor, don’t necessarily make sense on mobile. It’s a wickedly exciting opportunity but there are myriad challenges to getting it right.
One avenue for exploring this opportunity is through Mozilla Labs, which is about pushing the envelope towards better and brighter interaction horizons, as well as incorporating a winder community into the innovation process. This concept video explains one direction we are thinking in, and we’d love to inspire participation in thinking about other directions.
Standard Mockup/Experimental UI Disclaimer
All of the images and videos are only conceptual mockups of an experimental UI for Firefox Mobile, any particular feature may end up looking entirely different, or may not even make it into the final release.
For a full discussion of the design, and how to get involved, please head over to Aza’s post.
Interesting stuff. How will the interface handle things such as zooming to content on the page? On the iPhone, you can zoom to a block of content on the page, and then drag the page around to see other regions.
So make use of the demonstrated interface, you would have to scroll to the edge of the page, and then scroll further to ‘Zoom out’ or to perform other actions, or zoom out (presumably by double tapping as on the iPhone) then go to the edge.
Also I’m not sure of the need for allowing the user to move around and arrange ‘tabbed’ windows in Zoomed out view. Is there a way for it to keep each window neatly laid out automatically?
For a large tablet display, there may be use cases for this, but for mobile device with small screen, I’m not convinced having ‘expose-like’ functionality is as usable.
But again, interesting work and look forward to seeing new developments.
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Interesting concept. I think it’s one of the most compelling ways of making gestures discoverable.
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I can’t wait to get it. I hope that FireFox mobile will also have Java Runtime Environment. IE mobile does not, and I need it to do my banking. I hope you have considered making sure its in there.
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