FirefoxMobile-SmartTabs

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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

MozillaMobile 1-1 Tabs.png

Ideas for Improvement

Put the closing-Button on the right Tab side

Relocate Button Wireframe
  • 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.


MozillaMobile pageCrop.png

Smarter Page Crop

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


MozillaMobile addFavicon.png

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