The results are in for our Browser Design Jam competition! We had five entrants, and the top three all won T-shirts and laptop bags that were generously provided by Mozilla. As voted by members of SOCHI and SCSI, here are the winners:
First Place: Arcilight, by Maureen Hanratty and Ian Tadashi Moore
We developed a flash animation that shows some applications a user might interact with in the morning, using a touch-screen kitchen table. In this demonstration, a user interacts with the table to check the weather and their email, using an arc to represent the timeline for each application. At a kitchen table the user might be engaged in other activities such as drinking their morning cup of coffee, so most actions on the table can be done with one hand. We hope this prototype serves as an alternate vision of the future of the browser, one that emphasizes beauty and simplicity over powerful functionality.
Second Place: Browsing Spaces, by Debra Lauterbach
I tend to have a zillion tabs open at once, and I know I'm not alone. My tabs tend to be groups by the specific tasks that I was doing during particular browsing sessions: working on a class project, doing some research, or reading news articles. I leave these tabs open because I'm not done with them yet and want to remember to go back to them later. Bookmarks don't work because I don't want to save these tabs permanently - I only need them until I'm done with the task I was using them for. I propose a new feature called "Browsing Spaces", in which tabs can be opened into a new "Browser Space" when you begin working on a new task. Each Browser Space only contains the tabs for that space, so there aren't 50 tabs to scroll through when switching between tabs. Browser Spaces are easy to switch between, and easy to move tabs between spaces. With Browser Spaces set up, it becomes easy to return to a browser session and pick up on a task where you left off, with only the tabs you need for that task in front of you.
Third Place: Visual Browser History, by Mark Goetz (with some input from Liz Blankenship at Design Jam 2)
The basic idea of my prototype is to facilitate browsing your viewing history visually. We've all had cases where we can remember about what a site looks like, but can't remember the name. In this mockup, the favicons in the awesome bar and history panel are replaced by tiny screens of the websites - just enough to jog your memory of what the site looks like. If you mouseover the entry, a full-size screenshot will appear. A "See all" option under the history panel lets you browse through all the pages you have visited. Additionally, there are graphical and numerical indications to help you pick out which sites you have visited most frequently.
Here are the other entrants to our competition, in no particular order:
Accordion Tabs, by Hung Truong and Tammy Greene
Traditional tabbed browsing makes transitioning from one tab to another difficult, especially when the number of tabs is large and information needs to be shared or transferred from multiple tabs. The cost of switching from one tab to another incurs a sort of mental cost. With accordion tabs, the mental cost should be lowered through transitioning between only horizontal plane (as opposed to the vertical plane required to reach the tabs menu). Accordion tabs are fun to use and flashy!
Productivity Mode, by Noah Liebman and Liz Blankenship.
Ever get distracted by your news feed or favorite social networking site when you should be working? Or maybe it's an online game. We envision a smarter browser that helps you stay on track by allowing you to enter a "Productivity Mode" in which the browser would make you complete a challenge before proceeding to distracting websites. This challenge, we hope, would give you just enough time and mental distraction from your usual habits that you would make the decision to get back to work on your own.
Thanks to all who participated, and thanks to SCSI for helping organize the event and Mozilla for sponsoring it!
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