Feb042009

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 are covered by them – and should be made more transparent.  The second issue is opaque tabs and how to properly allow the skin to show through them.