As you may know, I’m currently working as User Experience Intern at Mozilla. I’ve been tasked with designing the next generation Firefox Home Tab. I wanted to share what work I’ve done so far and give a general update on what I plan on doing in the near future. I will be routinely updating the progress and my work on this project as the summer goes forward. So check back often to keep updated on what I’m doing.
I think it’s important to know right off the what we (the UX team) are imagining for the new home tab. We do not imagine the new home tab to be a content aggregation service, but rather we hope to fully understand and push the boundaries of what we (as a browser) can do that websites might not be able to do well. I’ve come up with some approaches that I’ve been looking at to use while designing, which I’ve listed below.
Possible Design Tools
- Golden Questions
used to understand many different perspectives - Secondary Research
what research has been done so far by academia and other industry players? - User Research
understand what users of home pages via surveys, possible interviews - Data Aggregation
bring together all data points, see trends, gather insights - Brainstorming
generate multiple ideas on what we can do as a browser - Design Lunch
group brainstorming to get multiple view points and crazy ideas - Sketching
to get ideas out of our heads - Concepting, Ideating
to fully explore a design space - Prototyping
to further explore a particular design - User Studies
to understand gaps and problems with a design or concept