{"id":3990,"date":"2016-02-18T18:37:35","date_gmt":"2016-02-18T10:37:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/ux\/?p=3990"},"modified":"2019-01-25T15:55:12","modified_gmt":"2019-01-25T20:55:12","slug":"amo-style-refresh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/ux\/2016\/02\/amo-style-refresh\/","title":{"rendered":"Style Refresh for addons.mozilla.org (AMO)"},"content":{"rendered":"

This article originally appeared on the AMO blog<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

AMO<\/a> is the central hub for developers to distribute their add-ons, and for users to discover them. It\u2019s a workhorse of a site, serving as a publishing platform, online community, and marketplace where over 1 million<\/a> add-ons are downloaded each month.<\/p>\n

The current design has been in place since September 2011<\/a>, with only minor<\/a> design changes since. We\u2019ve begun overhauling the entire site to modernize it and make it more reliable, but in the meantime we\u2019ve done a quick visual refresh to bridge the gap until we finish the transformation.<\/p>\n

The following design is scheduled to debut in Firefox 48<\/a>, and will remain in place until the larger overhaul is complete:<\/p>\n

\"Screenshot<\/a>

Screenshot of the AMO Style Refresh – coming soon<\/p><\/div>\n

We started this project by tweaking the existing CSS using the Firefox Page Inspector<\/a>. This is quite easy and got us visible results for every adjustment we made. Every change we liked was then recorded in a userstyle<\/a> using Stylish<\/a>. Adapting style-elements from the Firefox for iOS<\/a> website, this resulted in AMO looking more modern within hours.<\/p>\n

\"screenshot<\/a>

Comparison of AMO style in 2011 and January 2016<\/p><\/div>\n

This is the first of many improvements that we will bring to the user experience of the add-on ecosystem. Many of them will take some time to be created and implemented, but they will all\u00a0 have a strong focus on its users\u2014both the developers of add-ons and the people using them.<\/p>\n

For a preview of the new look, you can install this userstyle<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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