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The Home Tab

Design Challenge, Winter '09

Submissions

We are proud to present a list of all submissions to the Mozilla Labs 'Design Challenge: The Home Tab (Winter '09).


* Please note submissions are ordered alphabetically by name.
** All concepts are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States License.

Entry #123 from Adam Koski

Adam Koski


One side panel for local links, one side panel for widgets, one main panel for visual links and a bottom panel to bind them.

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Entry #150 from Ahmed Adel

Ahmed Adel


This concept will bring all your needs to firefox You can see your feeds, most visited sites and inbox. It will make every user has its customizable home tab

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Entry #145 from Alberto Moreno

Alberto Moreno


Simplicity, Fast Dial, Search, Bookmarks, downloads... Is the page that you must be on base, with which you can not live .. that's the point

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Entry #128 from Alecsandru Grigoriu

Alecsandru Grigoriu


Through this concept i wanted to express a new way of using tabs and information access. Why bring the info/data to the user when you can bring the user to it.

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Entry #126 from Alexis Brion

Alexis Brion


Concept based in three elements: to keep the search box in a prominent position, the feeds/widgets should appear automatically and a Link-Tab mental connectio

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Entry #134 from Amine Zafri

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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Entry #146 from Arthur Klepchukov

Arthur Klepchukov


Each browser window is treated like a task that you can name, organize, and switch between via the home tab.

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Entry #156 from Bala Chennupati

Bala Chennupati


Snapshots of user saved sessions are displayed on the home tab and updated frequently, allowing the user to keep track of the content they choose at a glance.

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Entry #164 from Ben Evans

Ben Evans


The most customizable and flexible home tab you could imagine, with the simplicity you need for every day use.

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Entry #121 from Binesh Amarasekara

Binesh Amarasekara


This gives a fully customizable home tab with easy search and browse features. An a number of favourites and recent pages. Also, this includes applet capability

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Entry #163 from Blake

Blake


My home tab concept categorizes users' history, downloads, and uploads by file type.

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Entry #114 from Casey H

Casey H


The home tab becomes a place for easily managing and organizing all of your tabs: open them, close them, label them, and even save them for later.

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Entry #147 from Chad Pommiss

Chad Pommiss


Integrates many local Firefox data sources, such as bookmarks, data in current tabs, recent sites, downloads, etc, into a nice, concise, productive screen.

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Entry #141 from Chatree Campiranon and Craig Birchler

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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Entry #118 from Chris Chapman

Chris Chapman


A more social and integrated start page featuring intelligent search and most visited sites, recommended add-on and Web Widgets - and plenty of Firefox logos.

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Entry #158 from Chris du Toit

Chris du Toit


This Home Tab was specifically designed to organize browsing history or bookmarks by treating websites similar in function or purpose as workspaces.

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Entry #102 from Dan Cardin

Dan Cardin


A customizable tab area on the side and the main content area in the middle. Basically nothing new; everything is simply in one spot.

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Entry #136 from Daniel Goodwin

Daniel Goodwin


What if the Home Tab was a social area of exploration, messaging and (web-based) location? Part 2: http://vimeo.com/9417722

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Entry #103 from David Hachez

David Hachez


Home Tab is a gate providing the opportunity to give back to the community through Firefox causes. Donate to one cause every day

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Entry #132 from David Ikuye, Tobias Precht, Jonas Kimmelmann

David Ikuye, Tobias Precht, Jonas Kimmelmann


This concept describes how the homescreen can be used for browsing bookmarks (Lesezeichen) and stored sites (Zwischenspeicher).

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Entry #148 from Davide Casali

Davide Casali


Foldable Home is a design concept that extends the bookmarks framework in order to give an improved user experience for both first time users and power users.

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Entry #139 from Edgar Tolman

Edgar Tolman


Quick web searches and posting to social networks, access to Firefox tools (bookmarks, downloads, etc), notifications, and the information that matters.

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Entry #135 from Emre Sarac

Emre Sarac


All buttons are located at the top. We do not need menus or external windows with this system. Including social services all in one solution.

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Entry #117 from Jack Schuleman

Jack Schuleman


The core of the internet. Everything you want to see right front and simple-twitter, facebook, email/calendar, and search.

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Entry #162 from Jonathan Price

Jonathan Price


This concept sees the Home Tab as a springboard to launch tabs, these tabs could be webpages or tabs that contain parts of firefox, like downloads or addons.

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Entry #138 from Juan Camilo Barrera

Juan Camilo Barrera


The concept "StartPoint" is designed based in the idea that in a homepage, you start with your daily browsing

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Entry #108 from Justin Riddiough

Justin Riddiough


Concept presenting urls and tabs as a personal library. Also provides interface for management features for tagging and sorting capabilities

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Entry #140 from Ltia - Unesp

Ltia - Unesp


Freewill: Focus on beeing a good start point, giving control over navigation and exposing your behavior and the web in a better way.

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Entry #142 from Maciej Saganowski

Maciej Saganowski


My tab is just for starting, not managing emails or widgets. It introduces new concepts: state perseverance, usage anticipation, sites & pages view, suggestions

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Entry #104 from Makis Tracend

Makis Tracend


A simple concept that utilizes the visuals, history, statistics and file manipulation of the browser to produce an intuitive interface for the end user.

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Entry #152 from Manu Kumar

Manu Kumar


This concept provides for enough info on the first glance(without a complicated UI),so that the user can start off/continue his browsing as soon as possible.

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Entry #116 from Marin Moulinier

Marin Moulinier


A simple home tab with boxes with bookmarks, most visited websites, history, last closed tabs, most populars search (a tag cloud) and add-ons.

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Entry #129 from Maurice Lam

Maurice Lam


There are actually 3 main concepts: 1. User customizable background page 2. Notifications on bookmarks bar 3. Search bookmarks and history with live previews

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Entry #155 from Min Hu

Min Hu


Turn 'web browsing' to 'web surfing' presents topics, can surf in scale and time. shows 4 pages: reading; finished reading; plan to read; suggestions.

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Entry #143 from Morgaine Charman

Morgaine Charman


Keeping the same Firefox look, with a few additions including buttons to most used sites, links from the history, and rss feeds from the bookmarks.

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Entry #137 from Nikash SINGH

Nikash SINGH


Transforming the new Home tab feature into a holding-space to allow users to collect & organise their online findings & resources. Like an interim desktop.

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Entry #157 from NorCal Design Council (Maureen Hanratty, Al Abut, Debbie Goldstein, Joshua Kaufman)

NorCal Design Council (Maureen Hanratty, Al Abut, Debbie Goldstein, Joshua Kaufman)


Our home tab concept displays thumbnails of their favorite sites, most recent sites, and the most popular links posted in their social networks.

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Entry #160 from Parag P

Parag P


Home tab concept which relies heavily on Mozilla Weave data synchronizing and Search. Focus on easy access to frequently visited pages.

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Entry #130 from Rick de Wachter

Rick de Wachter


We designed a home tab with two lists of smart browsing history. De first shows the sites you visit regularly. The second shows your latest browsing trends.

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Entry #144 from ROKKAN

ROKKAN


Uses browsing history to provide a 'Surfing Guide' that anticipates what websites a user will want to visit based on the time of day and the day of the week.

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Entry #120 from Sam Horne

Sam Horne


This homepage has sections, and a search/filter bar that searches everything in all sections, as well as a trends area, bookmarks box, and recently closed box.

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Entry #154 from Scott Fitchet

Scott Fitchet


I've bypassed the idea of altering the concept of a 'home page' and reconsidered how this button might act as a gateway to a Mozilla-based web desktop.

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Entry #149 from Siddharth Rao

Siddharth Rao


A simple widget and icon view with themes that allows user to do simple and most often done tasks.

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Entry #131 from Spiro Tičić

Spiro Tičić


The Home tab would consist of plugins shown on the left whereas their content would be on the right side of the Firefox window.

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Entry #107 from Tatu Arvela

Tatu Arvela


My concept is resizeable and movable boxes and a top bar.

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Entry #161 from Yatrik Solanki

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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Entry #133 from Yorick Peterse

Yorick Peterse


Decrease the amount of clicks required to do a certain action and provide the users with a visual preview of their bookmarks (much like Opera's Speedial).

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Entry #127 from Zhenyi Tan

Zhenyi Tan


A simple home tab that shows your bookmarks and browsing history at a glance. It'll provide updates based on your visited sites and social networks.

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