As Lead Visual Designer for Mozilla, Sean works hard at trying to make pretty pictures. Embedded in the Creative wing of the Engagement team, he churns out rasters and vectors for both Mozilla and the greater global Mozilla community.July 2008 Archive
Mozilla Summit 2008: Open Source Marketing
The Mozilla internal marketing team and Spreadfirefox.com hosted an excellent session on marketing, starting with a strong description explaining marketing practises and how results are achieved through user-targeted campaigns. A main focus of the talk was enabling the community to propose and develop their own Firefox marketing, but at the same time ensuring that as [...]
Mozilla Summit 2008: Design Process
Mike Beltzner gathered a large group of us into the lobby, where we had ample light and airflow, and spoke on the different approaches to implementing design changes in Mozilla products. Methods of the past were discussed, from silently injecting changes into nightly builds to announcing and documenting the changes in more of a “this [...]
Mozilla Summit 2008: Mobile UX
Madhava Enros hosted a talk on Mobile UI and where Mozilla is going within that realm. There was a very enlightening Q&A session in which devs from around the world described how they use mobile in their regions and what is needed in order to advance the platform.
Mozilla Summit 2008: Mozilla Labs Concept Series
Chris Beard hosts a talk on Mozilla Labs and the idea of submitting ideas on potential future project – no matter what the idea – think big! Several videos highlight community ideas on what a future browser should look like and how it should function. Jesse James Garrett, co-founder and President of Adaptive Path, showcased [...]
Mozilla Summit 2008: Fennec (Firefox Mobile)
This session deals with the mobile version of Firefox codenamed Fennec. I’m designing the UI for it now and I will upload screenshots of what may appear in the alpha build later this afternoon.
Mozilla Summit 2008: Product & Technology Roadmap
After a brief update on the glorious landslide, Mike Shaver began speaking on where Mozilla goes from here. Mike showcased a new video/audio capability turned on in the build last night that allows end-users to embed video, cross platform, without flash… Includes closed-captioning and even video/image on-the-fly reflections! After a presentation on where Mozilla is [...]
Mozilla Summit 2008: Spreadfirefox.com
An excellent session talking about giving the power to the users to market the browser in their own way. I’ll be showing my latest version of Kit to the group and will be creating wallpaper for the site!
Mozilla Summit 2008: The History/Future of Web Browser UI
An excellent session showcasing the history of the web browser, from its humble beginnings sitting on one box, to the latest and greatest versions today. It’s pretty nice to see the theme I worked on now within that timeline. There were some excellent concepts for the future of web browsing – very minimalistic UI that [...]
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Mozilla Summit 2008: Main Conference Room
The opening session is beginning. John Lilly thanks us for being a part of creating a product that 1 in 5 people on the Internet around the world use every day. Mitchell Baker now speaking about how the 400 people here are affecting the lives of 200+ million people. Talk continues about what makes Mozilla [...]
Mozilla Summit 2008: Conference Day 1 – Gran Paradiso!
Well here we are all tucked away up in Whistler B.C., settled into the Westin in what can only be described as an absolutely gorgeous location. I’m sitting on my apartment terrace looking at the mountains as I blog this. Gorgeous. We all arrived yesterday and were given a warm reception last night out on [...]