IxDA is pleased to announce it has again partnered with Mozilla Labs<http://labs.mozilla.com/>and Johnny Holland <http://johnnyholland.org/> for this Fall's Mozilla Design Challenge<http://bit.ly/148VEG> :
*"Visualizing your browser data - How can we provide intuitive and useful visual representations of your browser data (such as bookmarks, history, tabs, stored credentials etc.) on a web page?"* http://bit.ly/148VEG >From the site: Welcome The Mozilla Labs <http://labs.mozilla.com/> Design Challenge is a series of events to encourage innovation, and experimentation in user interface design for the Web. Our aim is to provoke thought, facilitate discussion, and inspire future design directions for Firefox, the Mozilla project, and the Web as a whole. [more<http://labs.mozilla.com/2009/01/introducing-the-design-challenge/> ]Once again we teamed up with the wonderful folks at IxDA<http://www.ixda.org/>, a network dedicated to the professional practice of Interaction Design and Johnny Holland <http://www.johnnyholland.org/>, an open collective, talking, sharing and finding answers about all aspects of interaction design and invite the wider community to join us in this challenge, develop concepts and submit them to our site.The Brief For this Design Challenge, we are looking for innovative solutions to answer the question: *"Visualizing your browser data - How can we provide intuitive and useful visual representations of your browser data (such as bookmarks, history, tabs, stored credentials etc.) on a web page?"* As we spend more time on the web, we accumulate more data. We bookmark sites we like, we create accounts on various social networks, we have multiple tabs open as we follow wikipedia loops and so on. We are also browsing the web from multiple devices, on the go. This presents some unique challenges that end up fragmenting our browsing experience. We aren't able to successfully take our entire browsing experience with us, suspend and resume where we left off as we may with our Tivos. The Mozilla Weave project helps address some of these issues by allowing you to securely store and synchronize all of that magic - the bookmarks, passwords, tabs etc - seamlessly as you go about your life. It does impose one requirement though - access to Firefox. As much as we love Firefox and want to see it everywhere, we also recognize there may be valid everyday scenarios where that isn't practical - airport kiosks, libraries, parts of Redmond, WA etc. That doesn't mean *you*, as a Firefox user, should suffer. We want you to have access to your important data, always, at your fingertips, from anywhere. Since the web is ubiquitous, the simplest way we could imagine making this possible is via a web page. However, since we are talking about various types of data accumulated across years, across multiple devices, we would love to get some fresh, creative ideas on how to visually present this information. How It Works The program starts in the first week of September and runs for 10 weeks. The Design Challenge is divided into two phases - each running for five weeks. During the first phase we ask you to produce a concept, mockup and an explanation of your thinking behind it. A mockup can be anything from a low-fi sketch on a napkin to a high-fi video presenting your concept. The Mozilla Labs Weave team will provide feedback to participants at two check-in points in week three and four. At the end of phase one the Weave team will select the most promising concepts, which will move forward into phase two. In this phase you will refine your mockup and turn it into an interactive HTML/CSS/JavaScript prototype (don't worry - we can help you doing this!). During phase two the Weave team will provide regular feedback, weekly check-ins and support via email/irc. Participants are encouraged to share their ideas, approach and progress on their blogs - we will aggregate this information and provide a forum for open discussion, ideation and exchange. At the end of phase two the Weave team will again select the most promising concepts and work with their respective creators on integrating them into Weave. Important Dates - *First week of September 2009* - Launch of Weave Web UI Design Challenge - *Last week of September 2009* - Selection of participants for phase 2 - *First week of November 2009* - Program ends, the Weave team will select the most promising concepts and work with their creator on integrating them into the Weave product Learn more & submit: http://bit.ly/148VEG Let us know if you're participating! Janna DeVylder President, IxDA ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
