Two months ago, IxDA partnered with Mozilla Labs and Johnny Holland to sponsor this summer's design challenge, “*Reinventing Tabs in the Browser – How can we create, navigate and manage multiple web sites within the same browser instance?*“.
We were completely overwhelmed with the response, almost 130 entries. It was amazing to see entries come in from all over the world, varying wildly in approach, context and execution. Narrowing down this set into some best-in-class selections did not come easily. Take a look: http://labs.mozilla.com/2009/07/design-challenge-summer-09-honors/ You may very well recognize some names from our community: Best in Class: Innovation For the solution that has the newest / most original interaction models. - TabViz <http://design-challenge.mozilla.com/summer09/#bic-innovation>by Liz Blankenship, Jakob Hilden & Kerry Kao Best in Class: Execution For the solution that has the most expressive prototype, a combination of polish as well as functional availability. - Collapsible Tab Groups<http://design-challenge.mozilla.com/summer09/#bic-execution>by Martin Polley Best in Class: Interaction For the solution that feels provides the best human-computer interaction model. - Wave Concept<http://design-challenge.mozilla.com/summer09/#bic-interaction>by Darby Thomas, Danielle Kanastab & Alex Mattice Best in Class: Producible For the solution that would be the easiest to ship to users immediately. - Favitabs <http://design-challenge.mozilla.com/summer09/#bic-producible>by Grady Kelly People’s Choice Award For the first time we invited the wider community to vote on their personal favorite – the “People’s Choice” award for the Design Challenge: Summer 09 goes to - CubeZilla <http://design-challenge.mozilla.com/summer09/#bic-people> by Faber Ludens Many thanks to our friends at Mozilla and Johnny Holland for partnering with us on this. Most importantly, thanks to the participants for sharing their concepts with all of us! I look forward to seeing some of these ideas come to life. Janna DeVylder President, IxDA ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [email protected] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
