Following my Read it Later review a few days ago, I wanted to know who was behind this amazing idea. Nate Weiner from Idea Shower, was kind enough to share some thoughts with MacStories.
Here’s our interview.
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An interview with Read it Later Developer Nate Weiner
Firefox.next Mockup: Sidebar, Workspaces and Vertical Tabs
Following my previous post about the future of Firefox, (you can find it here) I made this mockup/sketch, hope to be clear enough.
It’s the same mockup Pascal Finette covered in his blog (here) and which I’ve submitted to Mozilla Labs Design Challenge: Summer 09 (where you can find my presentation video as well)
Firefox Bookmarks: How Do You Use Them?
I took inspiration from a post on Planet Ubiquity (http://tinyurl.com/9tten8) to discuss a very important issue of our browsers: bookmarks.
Surely you all know what they are, you can call them Favorites, but in the end they are always bookmarks.
As Dicarlo asked ,do we still need bookmarks? Or are they an unnecessary thing of the past, when the Web was still “new“?
Well, I think he‘s right: bookmarks are too Web 1.0.
At least as we have known them until today.
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Designing the Browser of the Future
[This is a total update & restyling of 7 months old post. Updated to December 2009]
I recently stumbled upon this post by Aza Raskin where he outlines the pros and cons of a brand new way of using Firefox: a vertical sidebar with multiple items in it. That post made me think a lot about this subject: how can we improve the browsers, what can designers and developers do to make browsers more usable and “modern”? I started searching for other similar resources and I found a couple of interesting mockups from GoSquared, IA and Cocoia. This post will showcase these mockups and provide some ideas about how can browsers evolve and get ready for “the future”.
Enjoy!