Revision as of 16:29, 26 April 2010

Smart Tabs for Mozilla Mobile

Project by Jan Dittrich

"How can the way we make the tabs better representing the pages?"

Goals: make tabs better representing the pages.

No-Goals: Change the general model of interaction with tabs, Use signficant more screen real estate.

Current Situation

Ideas for Improvement

Put the closing-Button on the right Tab side

Pro: The more relevant left edge is free.
Contra:
- The left side is closer to the edge which means the area can be touched easier since one does not care about tapping a close object on the left side.
- When dragging the Bar in, one sees just the Buttons at first.

Smarter Page Crop

Concept:

Pro: Coosing a more representative part of the page means better recognition and more differenciation between similar pages.
Contra: ---

Adding Favicon

Pro: Visual grouping of same Domain-Pages. Recognize logos of commonly used webpages.
Contra: Could be mistaken for a button if not carefully integrated.

Note:It is likely that the favicon itself is hard to recall for non-frequently used pages. But it often gives color clues for the page. (Further research is needed)

Study 1: What do people recall about webpages

Goal

Results

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 *Pro: The more relevant left edge is free.
 *Contra:
-**Possibly the users are more likely to tap on the right part. If this is the case the right part should continue to be aimed as selection target-area. (!!!needs to be discussed with Madhava or tried out via prototype)
+**The left side is closer to the edge which means the area can be touched easier since one does not care about tapping a close object on the left side.
 **When dragging the Bar in, one sees just the Buttons at first.
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