August 19th, 2011
Weekly Design Status Update
This week in Firefox visual design:
- Updated Windows 7 version of LocationBar results designs
- Exploration of named Search Engine button treatment (mostly interactive):
- Download Panel Design Specs in HTML/CSS for the great work Paolo is doing on Bug 564934
- Download Added Animation ideas (now with CSS Animations!)
- Add-ons Dictionary Icons
- Lion Theme Improvements
- Markus landed mac-lion-theme metric: Bug 679717
- Patch for improving Lion icons: Bug 679708
- Patch to fix fuzzy large buck button: Bug 679771
- Filed bug for adding texture to additional toolbars: Bug 680247
- Filed bug for updating Lion sidebars: Bug 680256
- Should look closer to this soon:
- DevTools
- UI-Review and specs for Highlighter InfoBar
- Working on overall design specs for Developer toolbar: bug 676255 and bug 676253
- Australis (Theme Refresh)
- Lagging behind on this a bit due to some more immediate stuff. Going to finish up initial designs and populate the Feature page next week.
Tags: Animation Mac Progress Report Theme Windows
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I don’t know if it’s intended, but on my computer on the animated search engine treatment, I’m getting 2 or 3 frames (first, second, last) of animation. So it feels jerky and sluggish. It does not feel appealing or polished. The reason may be technical or my computer, but I thought it might help.
Dunno if you’re looking for feedback on the download arrows, but they look good. The dropping arrow seems to make the most sense though. For one we are wanting to draw attention *to* the bar. The arrow starts larger and above and draws attention to the point of arrival. The arrow is also traveling downwards. This just seems to make sense, after all, it is a down arrow (if it were an up arrow it wouldn’t).
I don’t know that the expanding arrow would bring about these same desirable cognitive states.
Great job. I’d love to see all of this in a release, if it ever makes it. So much of your work is thrown away unfortunately. It needs to live on in themes and addons.
I’d love to get the linen-y texture you use for your mockup backgrounds, I loved the wallpapers you made but unfortunately run a slightly weird resolution so need to either make my own or heavily crop yours.
[...] News: es wird weiterhin am neuen Theme, beziehungsweise dem Refresh gearbeitet. Australis hat zum Beispiel eine neue Anzeige der Location Bar-Suchergebnisse. Bisschen groß, wie [...]
Download Added Animation idea #1 is the most annoying thing in Google Chrome for me.
Why would it not end up in Firefox?
These things looks great. It is nice to be able to see once in a while what the UX team is planning. If updates like this will start coming regularly or even every week as the title suggests, that would be great.
Stephen, great looking mockups as always, but is there a timeframe in mind for landing these updates? Also, the XP theme never matched the initial 4.0 update, is this likely to suffer the same fate?
I think “Animate Dropping Arrow” needs a 2nd animation of arrow going down after the download process got finished. I like this animation.
On what justification have you gotten rid of the forward button?
When will the Mozilla intent to remove as much UI as possible, if not all chrome, be held accountable.
Chrome-free browsers are appropriate for mobiles merely because mobiles are such puny devices, there’s no room for any. Desktop browsers are the complete opposite.
Thanks for the post Stephen, looking forward to seeing more like it!
Oh, the new mockups look cool and fresh! Can’t wait them to be implemented in Firefox! (I hope).
The search bar buttons are jerky for me too (only 3 distinct positions) firefox6 on Windows7 and take about 70% CPU for the mouseover
@Andy Burns: Yeah it’s kind of gross looking, but I am not sure if that is a problem with my questionable programming skills page or transitions in general.
The forward button is still there, it is just conditional. No one wants to get rid of all the UI. We have fullscreen for that.
@Stan: These are for a variety of projects with different targets. All the Lion stuff should be within the next few weeks, LocationBar results are slated for Firefox 10, and I think the DevTools stuff is for Firefox 9.
XP suffered a but in 4.0 due to technical restrictions on full window drawing and a lack of time. We should be able to fix it up on the next pass
You make clean and really perfect designs… Why I never ‘em being implemented?
We usually see a very conservative and a bit modified version of yours. I really like everything about Windows version. Light blue borders instead of the boring shadowy, the squared tabs instead of the wavy, and nice colors instead of the green last time we saw on UX build.
Perfect! Congratulations! I just hope it will come soon.
I don’t expect answer which probably will be an obvious one. Just saying.
I see that tabs are in title bar on OSX. When will that be in UX build?
Very nice!
This may have been discussed already (and is a bit off topic), but how about if when the forward button was applicable that it peeked out from behind the back button and then when not it slid back?
When the Australis theme would be implemented? In Firefox 10 too?
Nice work.
Just one suggestion: why not integrate the download panel into the main window. I simply hate the idea of having a separate dialog box for this. IE9 and Chrome managed to do this with class. I’m sure the good folks at Mozila can do it to0
The linux UI looks to be ubuntu. Doesn’t ubuntu utilize a one-menu-bar like OSX? If so, why is there a Firefox menu-button?
tabs in title bar on Mac when can we expect to see that in UX build?
Guys, remember that this isn’t a final release and it’s just a concept. The animation isn’t supposed to be perfect, because it’s just there to illustrate the actual final functionality. It may even be scrapped at the last minute. Good work guys!
About Lion,
– there is no mention on the scrollbars. Currently they really are the most visible “miss” of Firefox.
– Is there a plan to have native support of the autocorrect feature?
I love the Linux mockup. I’ve been looking forward to new (non-gtk) toolbar buttons and icons for a long while– hopefully they’ll make it in this time round!
“Australis (Theme Refresh)”?
Would that be this conceptual theme with the Google Chrome-ish tabs that stirred an uproar recently? Is that what you are going for?