Fennec - a mobile Firefox Madhava Enros, Fennec UX leadMozilla Corporation

Mozilla?

• We’re a global communityof thousands who sincerely believe in the power of technology to enrich people’s lives.

• We’re a public benefit organizationdedicated not to making money but to improving the way people everywhere experience the Internet.

• And we’re an open source software projectwhose code has been used as a platform for some of the Internet’s most innovative projects.

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/about/whatismozilla.html

Also, there’s Firefox

• simple

• secure

• speedy

• infinitely customizable

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/

Fennec

So, why Fennec?

1. Simple, fast navigation to Web content

2. Compatibility with the Web

3. Secure

4. A "whole product" for mobile

5. A platform for innovation on mobile

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/FennecVision

Initial design themes and goals

• Maximize screen space dedicated to content

• Minimize typing wherever possible

• Give primacy of interaction to a finger-oriented touchscreen

• accommodate finger size

• increase the physicality of the interface

• Support the quick lookup scenario

Demonstration

Where to from here?

• Finishing up what we’ve got

• Integration with the desktop

• More focus on user contexts

Weave integration in a few places

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tabs from your desktop

Weave tabs taskflow

Weave tabs taskflow (2)

Weave tabs taskflow (3)

Weave tabs taskflow

Mobile User Context

• Mobile

• Interruptible and distractible

• Available

• Sociable

• Contextual

• Identifiable (or personal?)

Taxonomy adapted from Barbara Ballard

http://flickr.com/photos/seandreilinger/2147807724/

Please get involved!

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=477628

Bug 477628 - Fennec should offer a pleasant user-experience

madhava@mozilla.com

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https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/