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February 2009 Archive

Feb24'09

Logomania!

My first month as Visual Designer with Mozilla Labs has been nothing short of funmazing.  I’ve basically been working solely on the elements of design that I love the most – logos and interfaces.  I’ve posted previously on the UI design I am working on for Personas, so I thought I’d share some of the [...]

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Feb20'09

A work in progress…

I thought I’d share this lil guy to get some initial community feedback on him as I am currently illustrating him for a Mozilla Add-ons project.
He’s part fox, part machine, he’s… Mulder Fox?  No, he’s just our ol’ friend Firefox with some handy attachments to help him sort through – and add to – the [...]

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Feb9'09

Showing More Skin: Personas Revisited, Part 2

As a quick update detailing where I am in the “play nice with Personas” revisions to the default Firefox 3 theme on OSX, I thought I’d share the preview below highlighting some of the changes to the toolbar buttons. *note: these theme changes will only be visible in the browser upon installing a future version [...]

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Feb4'09

Showing More Skin: Personas Revisited

One of my first tasks as the new Visual Designer for Mozilla Labs is to research how to revise Firefox’s default chrome in OSX so that your Personas really shine through.
Currently in OSX, there are two main chrome issues affecting Personas.  The first is that the buttons have an opaque background – the custom skins [...]

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