Debriefing and Proposal
My internship ends at Aug 23th, meaning officially I only have 15 days to contribute to Firefox. I will continue working as a contributor for Mozilla at school, so anybody needs a UI designer, a flash AS coder, a web designer or a CG artist and dev, ping me “Wei”on IRC or email me at weizhou@andrew.cmu.edu.I’m more than glad to help.
By the end of yesterday, proud as I am, tried 500 add-ons and extensions for firefox, as well as successfully developed a hobby of working for Mozilla. Work is just more fun than fun. The Summit gave me insights of how an open-source community could attract so much passionate developers – but I hope in the future, designer contributors could be largely involved to improve the user experience of future web.
I’m doing two things this week.
1. Design the first version of the Firefox phone. 2. Trying to write a brief overview of all Firefox add-ons and extensions, and find design implications based on it.
This media player UI design costs me Friday whole day. I designed 12 versions and choose those two. It’s hard to choose between concept 1 and concept 2, because I liked them both. User testing result shows people tends to like concept 1.Which one do you like better?
I’ll be waiting to see the FF phone design
I have been trying to find time to implement a prototype of it, so a nice UI design would be handy.
Mark Finkle
August 6, 2008 at 01:39
I really enjoyed your presentation on the browser history prototyping. Thank you for your foward-thinking work in this area and being a part of the Mozilla community.
Gen Kanai
August 6, 2008 at 02:15
Gen Kanai:
I like your blog, too!
weizhou
August 17, 2008 at 11:09
Mark:
The firefox phone design takes longer than I expected. But don’t worry, the final design will be cool!
weizhou
August 17, 2008 at 11:11
I like the concept 1 and full screen icon 4.
chelsey liu
August 25, 2008 at 15:48
I like “Full Screen Icon 4″ the most but I like the audio icon from #2 and #3 better than the audio icon in #1 and #4. Great job! Please post your Firefox phone design on your blog. Your ideas rock!
ChrisJF
August 25, 2008 at 17:57
I like the first one. I would choose the first because its less bulky and and its smooth.
Jean-Nicolas
August 27, 2008 at 04:30
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