Two weeks after the wider community bestowed the People’s Choice Award for the Home Tab Design Challenge (Winter 09), we now have the results for our Best in Class honors.

A panel consisting of the Firefox UX team (Jennifer Boriss, Alex Faaborg, Stephen Horlander and Alexander Limi) bestowed the following honors:

• Chatree Campiranon and Craig Birchler for Best in Class: Innovation
  (for the solution that has the newest / most original interaction model)
• Amine Zafri for Best in Class: Producible
  (for the solution that would be the easiest to ship to users immediately)
• Yatrik Solanki for Best in Class: Design
  (for the solution that has the most visually expressive concept)
• Daniel Goodwin for Best in Class: Risk Taker
  (for the solution that tests the limits of current thinking)
• Blake Cutler for Best in Class: Utility
  (for the solution that has the highest overall utility)

Congratulations to all participants, our First Round Top 10 concepts, the winner of the People’s Choice Award and the Best in Class honorees in this Design Challenge!

Head over to the Design Challenge page and see the winning concepts. And make sure you follow the Firefox UX team and their work on their wiki (also check out their “Behind the Bikeshed” blog).

– Pascal on behalf of the Mozilla Labs Design Challenge Team