For this summer 2009, the firefox creator wants itslatest design Challenge to focus on finding creative solutions on how to reinvent Tabs in the browser. Their theme is to find answer on the question "How can we create, navigate and manage multiple web sites within the same browser instance?"
Tabs worked well on slow machines on a thin Internet, where ten browser sessions were "many browser sessions". Today, 20+ parallel sessions are quite common; the browser is more of an operating system than a data display application; we use it to manage the web as a shared hard drive. However, if you have more than seven or eight tabs open they become pretty much useless. And tabs don’t work well if you use them with heterogeneous information. They’re a good solution to keep the screen tidy for the moment. And that’s just what they should continue doing.
If you want participate in the Design Challenge you need to create a mock-up of your proposed solution. It can be anything from a napkin drawing, to a wireframe, to a polished graphic. You also need to create a video that explains your idea(s), presenting the mock-up and showing how your idea works.
Here are the important dates to watch for:
* May 14th, 2009 - Launch of Design Challenge: Summer 09
* June 21st, 2009 - Submission deadline for mockups & videos
* July 8th, 2009 - Announcement of "Best in Class" and "People's Choice" selection
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