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Design Challenge, Winter '09

Welcome

The Mozilla Labs Design Challenge is a series of events to encourage innovation, and experimentation in user interface design for the Web. Our aim is to provoke thought, facilitate discussion, and inspire future design directions for Firefox, the Mozilla project, and the Web as a whole. [more]

Once again we teamed up with the wonderful folks at IxDA, a network dedicated to the professional practice of Interaction Design and Johnny Holland, an open collective, talking, sharing and finding answers about all aspects of interaction design. Together we invite the wider community to join us in this challenge, develop concepts and submit them to our sites.

For this Design Challenge we focused on finding creative solutions to the question: "The Home Tab — What are some interesting uses of a Firefox-hosted start page?"

Out of the nearly 50 submitted concepts a panel, including Jennifer Boriss, Alex Faaborg, Stephen Horlander and Alexander Limi (the Firefox UX team) selected five "Best in Class" honors. We also invited the wider community to vote for their personal favorites and bestow the "People's Choice" award.

"Best in Class" honors were bestowed in the following categories:

Best in Class: Innovation - For the solution that has the newest / most original interaction model
Best in Class: Producible - For the solution that would be the easiest to ship to users immediately
Best in Class: Design - For the solution that has the most visually expressive concept
Best in Class: Risk Taker - For the solution that tests the limits of current thinking
Best in Class: Utility - For the solution that has the highest overall utility

"People Choice" award

People's Choice Award - For the solution that received the highest average vote from the wider community

All concepts

All concepts - Complete list of all submitted concepts with video

Best in Class: Innovation

Chatree Campiranon and Craig Birchler

Bubble Stacks are an imaginative look into behavioral analysis. This concept improves the experience by organizing concepts into logical packages of websites.

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Best in Class: Producible

Amine Zafri

I tried to forget the ideas about gadgets and widgets and focus more on useful functionalities that may help users in their daily browsing experience...

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Best in Class: Design

Yatrik Solanki

Identities, a website launcher, browsing sessions, and a task-oriented ultrasmart search box define my concept. And it's cool! For more: yatriksolanki.com/fx

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