Firefox, Android and Quit Buttons
With the recent launch of Firefox 20 for Android, we retired the quit button. Some of you noticed. Some of you were sad. Which in turn made us sad. Here’s … Read more
Articles from 2013
Firefox Next: Evolving the User Interface using Genetic Algorithms
Optimizing the Interface is Hard Creating the perfect Firefox interface is a challenging problem. Every user has their own set of common tasks. The challenge is in defining a common … Read more
Improved type on Firefox for Android
Project Readability The Firefox UX team has been thinking a lot about type and readability lately, as part of our ongoing goal to make the web more beautiful and more … Read more
Papercuts: Round Two
Almost three years ago, we hosted a session here on Reddit where you got to tell us everything that annoyed you about Firefox 3.6. This led to an effort at … Read more
MWC 2013 = Success
This years MWC was a great success for Mozilla and specifically Firefox OS. Our booth was completely packed all four days with countless demos given to every global player imaginable. … Read more
Welcome Przemek, Visual Designer for Firefox OS
Our team has grown to 3 with Przemek (Senior Visual Designer Firefox OS) coming to us from BlackBerry (RIM). Prior to joining Mozilla, I worked with Przemek in the past … Read more
Case Study: The Edit Icon on Firefox OS
When Designer Experience is Trumped by In Market User Validation Testing. With our extremely short time frame on design for v.1.0, we had a good idea what metaphors needed to … Read more
“Revitalizing Unloved Devices” A talk by Matt Rogers, Co-Founder of Nest
Matt Rogers, founder & VP of Engineering at Nest, gave a great talk on Revitalizing Unloved Devices at Designers + Geeks last Thursday. For those of you who don’t know, … Read more
Countdown to V.1.0: Berlin Work Week and Sound Design
In summary… The Firefox OS Work Week in Berlin was a success, the team managed to fix all of Mozilla’s blockers for a V.1.0 Gold Build Candidate. During the week, … Read more