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| Design principles behind Firefox OS UX |
| By Thom Holwerda on 2012-09-24 21:19:24 |
| "Much like various versions of Firefox, the overall concept here is premium and of quality, but not because its expensive. Good quality design should be accessible to masses much like our products. Our strong focus is on high quality and distinctive design in the marketplace." Fantastic overview - quite detailed - about the UI design behind Firefox OS, from Patryk Adamczyk. |
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| fascinating |
| By Nelson on 2012-09-24 22:41:09 |
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Very beautiful design they have there. Seems very much middle ground between skeumorphic ridiculousness, and Metro fierce reduction. I love the concept of icons and colored plates. |
 - Score: 3 |
| Comment by Luminair |
| By Luminair on 2012-09-25 02:36:29 |
| they did the same thing before they switched firefox to the chrome gui. they copied the conclusion and wrote a justification for it. |
| - Score: 2 |
| RE: Comment by Luminair |
| By ssokolow on 2012-09-25 04:15:56 |
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> they did the same thing before they switched firefox to the chrome gui. they copied the conclusion and wrote a justification for it. Define "switched firefox to the chrome gui". Tabs on top? That's hardly switching to chrome's UI though I'll agree with you on removing "http://" from the address bar. (But they never justified that and you can turn it back on in about:config, unlike in Chrome) Did Firefox copy Chrome's download manager? No. ...but Safari 5 was able to beat Firefox to implementing their own plans for the new Downloads Pane because the ideas were published for all to see and borrow from. http://limi.net/articles/improvi... There is a Download Statusbar extension for Firefox which I used to use, and given how much nicer it is than Chrome's download status bar, the Firefox guys would have come out on top if they just integrated it, but they came up with something unique and better than all competing options. (If you want to try it, there's an about:config toggle you can toggle to enable the version they're still tweaking and debugging. I run with it on.) I personally think that tabs on top is a good idea just for the fact that, if I install the "Tab Wheel Scroll" extension, maximize, and turn off Windows borders (I'm on Linux. It's not automatic), Fitts's law lets me slam my mouse to the top of the screen and scroll to switch tabs. I actually had to put a lot of work into compacting Firefox's UI down to something more compact than even Chrome and I'm running Firefox Aurora. (Firefox 17 alpha 2, which means newer than "current") |
| - Score: 5 |
| RE[2]: Comment by Luminair |
| By Luminair on 2012-09-25 05:12:03 |
| one version of firefox looked like firefox, and then the next version looked like chrome :) I wasn't the only one to notice. |
| - Score: 4 |
| Prettier AND more Free than Android? |
| By tidux on 2012-09-25 05:27:31 |
| This looks quite promising. |
| - Score: 3 |
| RE[3]: Comment by Luminair |
| By ssokolow on 2012-09-25 05:31:21 |
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> one version of firefox looked like firefox, and then the next version looked like chrome :) I wasn't the only one to notice. Again, what the heck are you talking about? (Find screenshots if possible.) Whenever this change must've occurred, I was already using a set of extensions and Stylish Userstyle hacks to make it "more chrome than chrome" so I didn't notice a difference beyond removing hacks for features that were announced to now be provided in the core. |
| - Score: 2 |
| Nothing innovative here |
| By mattymoo on 2012-09-25 05:37:02 |
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Wholly uninspiring. Lots of design elements stolen from Metro,iOS,Android. Button design is terrible. Otherwise, I'm sure it will work fine, but it really doesn't push any boundaries. |
| - Score: 1 |
| RE[3]: Comment by Luminair |
| By asupcb on 2012-09-25 05:37:36 |
| Actually I feel like Firefox looked more like Opera after its redesign than Chrome. |
| - Score: 3 |
| This looks very familiar |
| By Neolander on 2012-09-25 06:00:25 |
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In my view, this looks a lot like Holo, but with more gradients, roundedness, and WP7-style cut-off design. Might be me, though. And not that having a familiar design is necessarily a bad thing... |
| - Score: 3 |
| Slide to unlock |
| By nej_simon on 2012-09-25 08:10:39 |
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https://blog.mozilla.org/ux/2012/... Don't tell Apple ;) |
| - Score: 2 |
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