After two rounds of voting and nearly 3,000 votes, you have decided and bestowed the People’s Choice Award in the Home Tab Design Challenge to Yatrik Solanki.
Yatrik describes his concept as “Identities, a website launcher, browsing sessions, and a task-oriented ultrasmart search box define my concept. And it’s cool!”:
Honorable mentions go to Chad Pommiss, the NorCal Design Council (M. Hanratty, A. Abut, D. Goldstein, J. Kaufman), Alecsandru Grigoriu and Amine Zafri.
Congratulations to all participants, our First Round Top 10 concepts and the winner of the People’s Choice Award in this Design Challenge!
Our jury, consisting of the Firefox UX team (Alex Faaborg, Alexander Limi, Jennifer Boriss and Stephen Horlander) are now going through all submissions and will bestow a series of honors around March 15th. Stay tuned!
If your concept was part of the top 10 finalists, we will follow up via email and let you know what your score was and forward you the feedback which the wider community left for your concept. We also randomly selected 5 people from the pool of confirmed voters who submitted at least one vote and contact them via email regarding our swag bag.
- Pascal on behalf of the Mozilla Labs Design Challenge Team
Tags: design challenge
Why is Mozilla, a proponent of the HTML5 standard, presenting an embedded Flash Youtube video to browsers that can handle HTML5 video?
Also, thanks guys!
I’m really glad you liked it :]
Congratulations and best regards.
Because we don’t have access to the original file and hence can’t convert it into an Open Video format.
I’d get it to you if I had time, perhaps will later, hehe.
Love the sessions and Ubiquity inspired bar. http://fav4.org/ would be a good inspiration for the design (eye-candy)
The entries are impressively creative. However, many of the entries seem to be trying to imitate an operating system instead of focusing on usability and common (non-expert) users.
I think the HomeTab should primarily (3/4 of the page) contain thumbnails of the “frecently” (frequency + recency) visited web pages. It should also be possible to “pin” and rearrange the thumbnails. I think Safari for the Mac does this very well.
The layout should also be as non-cluttered as possible.
All other features are secondary.
BTW: Since many users don’t (and cannot) understand tabs, I think the home tab has the danger that users will open a new tab from the home tab, go back to the home tab, open anther new tab, and repeat this process until there are a huge number of tabs open. This is made even worse by the apparent planned removal of the close button on background tabs. Perhaps the home-tab should not be implemented?!
Congrats to everyone!!
Yatrik: really interesting work! Great stuff.
Pascal: might it be a good idea for future competitions to require entrants to submit their original video file, so we can make it available as Open Video?
Gerv
opera screen shots + some photoshop effects
all his work stolen from opera 10.5 user interface design
http://images.betanews.com/media/4223.jpg
@Arab
It’s a Mozilla concept design that’s been out since forever and is available as an add-on by Spewboy.
http://spewboy.deviantart.com/art/Strata40-v0-6-Beta4-132191373
There’s nothing original about Opera’s new GUI.
#10, the ability to read wasn’t wasted on you was it? This is for the home tab, not the browser GUI.
@Mozilla, this is all great, but having to watch videos to see what’s in the top ten is pretty darn fail.
I don’t how this looks like Opera 10.5 at all? I would quicker say that Opera took there UI from Chrome.
Pascal: Yes, you can with http://tinyogg.com
I hate music in presentations and stopped watching the video after a few secs..
I like the concepts. They are a evolution of what is available today. For instance the page history is a magnificent idea. Safari has a similar feature where users can browse history by album art but this takes it to a whole new level.
@Arab Najjar: Yes all these concepts were first started with the Opera browser. Opera is a innovator of web technologies which many seem to imitate. Although his concepts of speed dial (more like apples top sites) might be similar, you cannot dwell in the past. What one company does is eventually going to get ripped and made better by another. Also his start page is more or less the start page of Chrome
All in All a great effort and congratulations for winning
Trying to make Firefox look and work like Google Chrome is ridiculous. I like Firefox because it doesn’t currently look and work like Chrome. At least provide an opt-out feature.