Here’s where you’ll find the list of projects and prototypes Blake has been working on.
A staging area for upcoming changes to the Design System. (Take a look at the code.)
An addon to test some experimental Reading List interactions. (Take a look at the project page or the code.)
A live mockup of some webcam/mic/screen sharing ideas. (Take a look at the code.)
A test of some quicker page loading ideas for Firefox. (Take a look at the project page or the code.)
An add-on which switches the location of NewTab tiles. (Take a look at the project page or the code.)
An add-on to add keyboard shortcuts to Etherpad. (Take a look at the project page or the code.)
An experiment in what to do with tabs you don’t need now. (Take a look at the project page or the code.)
Some experiments in making Firefox a little more fun.
(Take a look at the code.)
(Pssst, Angelina, it mostly replaces the thumbnails in
the new-tab screen with animated gifs from an etherpad…)
We think we can do something interesting with saving for later, and the Mozilla Foundation agrees with us! This is a first stab at something we’re looking into. (Take a look at the first and second videos, and if they seem interesting, view the code.)
We have a lot of ideas about what to do with the space that’s displayed when you open a new tab, before you go anywhere. This is where we’ll explore some of them. (Grab the add-on now!)
There is a lot of information we could use on mobile devices in order to give people better search suggestions. By installing this custom build, and this add-on, you can see an experimental version of what we’re aiming for.
Wouldn’t it be really cool if we could easily create mockups that linked to bugzilla, like the ones at Are We Pretty Yet? Well, I’ve started on a tool to enable that. You can find the code in this Github repo, and any assistance would be quite welcome!
I would also love it if you Suggested improvements, reported bugs, or just let me know what you thought.
At the 2012 Firefox UX Concept Week, one of the ideas we had was to change the chrome when the user was on a site that we believe to be insecure, even though they had allowed the exception. This add-on will make that change, but in the interests of development speed, it assumes that any site not on the Alexa Top 1000 Sites list is untrustworthy. 😉
One of the questions we’re trying to answer is “Will people drag-and-drop to customize their panel menu?”, so I wrote this page, and the associated add-on, to try and answer this question with some user testing.