Fennec Case Study
From MobileDesign
Presented at Design for Mobile 2009
[edit] Presenter
Madhava Enros (Mozilla)
440-525 | Tuesday
[edit] Abstract
Fennec is the project to create a version of Firefox for mobile devices. The challenge, so far, has been to bring what users love about Firefox -- that it's simple, secure, speedy, and extremely customizable -- to mobile, while redesigning the user-interface to be more appropriate for a small-screen touch-screen world. We started from scratch, with a few key goals in mind:
- Maximizing the screen space dedicated to content
- Minimizing typing wherever possible
- Accommodating finger size and taking advantage of the physicality of touch-screens
- I'll go through a case study of how we got to the current form of the Fennec interface design, and where we're heading from here.
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[edit] Media & Downloads
View or download the Fennec Case Study presentation from Slideshare
The demonstration portion of the presentation was previously filmed and can be viewed on Vimeo
A Mozilla Wiki page detailing many of the UI design decisions. Other pages in the wiki go into additional detail so browse around.
All of the UI designs considered, from the Mozilla Wiki
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