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The Future of the Browser
Mozilla Labs is asking us for help determining how we are going to use the browser in the future. Aza Raskin came out with his vision about a month ago, and now Adaptive Path has made theirs.
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Actually, this is only the first part, out of 4, of Adaptive Path's vision. The remaining parts is yet to be released, which will eventually end up as a full concept film.
(via Adaptive Path's Aurora)
Comments
Amanda - Aug. 6, 2008
I keep being distracted by the South Park screen shot of Randy. Is that from the episode where the internet is broken.
Ryan Selvy - Aug. 11, 2008
To me it seems a bit unorganized. I love the collaborative thought, as well as being able to search through the web together with live cursors and voice. However, I don't like the idea of clusters though, nor do I like the wheel and such, I like the idea of tabs and how they actively work, why make it harder to navigate?
Thomas Baekdal - Aug. 11, 2008
Update: Adaptive Path have released the full video:
And an article about the design process:
http://www.adaptivepath.com/blog/2008/08/11/aurora-visual-design/
I must admit that after reading the article about the design, my enthusiasm has dropped considerably. You don't design future interaction by focusing on the graphics as initial step. Design is important, but the you must define the concept before you define the visuals.
Anders Mogensen - Aug. 14, 2008
I am very annoyed by the *bleep* *bloop* sounds in the video :-)
The overall concept seems too messy and too demanding for an average user. Design is not about giving loads of options to the user, which is my impression from the video.
Moreover, the concept with the huge (and complicated?) "mouse thingy dingy" seems very incompatible with the trends towards mobile use of the internet.
But keep them visions coming :-)
UtahLuxury.com - Aug. 18, 2008
I am fascinated by this. I have one major problem and it seems to almost play true in the video. The people are farmers, not your average computer user.
Simply put, I highly doubt that this system is next-gen. I think that many of these components would succeed after a slow release into the market or as Firefox has done with plugins and allowing users to decide which components to pull into their systems.
As far as the system is concerned, it might be nice to demonstrate this like Konfabulator. Again pulling in components as needed.
Published: Aug. 6, 2008
in User Experience
Thomas Baekdal is a Writer, Interaction Designer, Change Advocate and Project Manager.
Douglas T - Aug. 6, 2008
Fascinating ideas. I'm curious how accurate it's going to be.