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The Home Tab

Design Challenge, Winter '09

People's Choice Award

We are proud to present the Mozilla Labs Design Challenge: The Home Tab "People's Choice Award". Nearly 3,000 people from the wider community voted in a two-round selection process on the concept they liked most.

* Please note that the top 10 submissions are ordered alphabetically by name.
** All concepts are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States License.

People's Choice Award

Yatrik Solanki

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

Honorable Mentions:

Chad Pommiss | Video
Integrates many local Firefox data sources, such as bookmarks, data in current tabs, recent sites, downloads, etc, into a nice, concise, productive screen.
NorCal Design Council (M. Hanratty, A. Abut, D. Goldstein, J. Kaufman) | Video
Our home tab concept displays thumbnails of their favorite sites, most recent sites, and the most popular links posted in their social networks.
Alecsandru Grigoriu | Video
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.
Amine Zafri | Video
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...

About Yatrik

Yatrik Solanki is labeled as an enthusiast photographer, musician, engineer, and designer. He is often found lurking in any location where legality has no bounds on photography. As an user experience designer, this is his first foray, yet plans to delve much deeper into interaction. His long term goals include redefining the path of humanity with something really cool, but for now he's focusing on graduating high school next year. (Yatrik's blog & twitter account)

Top 10 Concepts

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