Download - Fennec case study - Design for Mobile 2009
Fennec: Firefox for mobileMadhava Enros, Mozilla
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Mozilla?
• We’re a global communityof thousands who sincerely believe in the power of technology to enrich people’s lives.
• We’re a public benefit organizationdedicated not to making money but to improving the way people everywhere experience the Internet.
• And we’re an open source software projectwhose code has been used as a platform for some of the Internet’s most innovative projects.
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/about/whatismozilla.html
Also, there’s Firefox
• simple
• secure
• speedy
• infinitely customizable
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/
Fennec
What are we aiming for?
1. Simple, fast navigation to Web content
2. Compatibility with the Web
3. Secure
4. A "whole product" for mobile
5. A platform for innovation on mobile
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/FennecVision
Initial design themes and goals
• Maximize screen space dedicated to content
• Minimize typing wherever possible
• Give primacy of interaction to a finger-oriented touchscreen
• accommodate finger size
• increase the physicality of the interface
• Support the quick lookup scenario
Proposal 6 - 1
Proposal 6 - 2
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/UI/Designs/TouchScreen/Proposal6
Proposal 8 - 1
Proposal 8 -2
Proposal 8 - 3
Proposal 8 - 4
Proposal 8 - 5
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/UI/Designs/TouchScreen/Proposal8
Touchbar proposal -1
Touchbar proposal - 2
Touchbar proposal - 3
Touchbar proposal - 4
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/UI/Designs/TouchScreen/TouchBar
Spatial/ZUI proposal - 1
Spatial/ZUI proposal - 2
http://www.azarask.in/blog/post/firefox-mobile-concept-video/
Demonstration
For a reasonable equivalent, minus a few late-breaking changes, see this walkthrough of our beta 1 release:
http://bit.ly/fennec-beta1-video( )
Moving access to bookmarks
Scalable UI widgets with CSS3
http://mozilla.seanmartell.com/fennec/index.html
Please get involved!
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=477628
Bug 477628 - Fennec should offer a pleasant user-experience
[email protected]: madhava
blog: madhava.com/egotism/
http://www.mozilla.com/mobile/