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Apr21'09

CSS3 & Flexible UI: Avoid Recutting UI Graphics for Mobile

Working on the Fennec UI has been an amazing experience.
Designing UI elements for a mobile browser has taught me a great deal when it comes to creating interactive graphical elements that are to be used in a very small space.  Of course, when I say small space, I mean a small space that has the [...]

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Apr6'09

Revisiting the Fennec Default Theme

With the release of Fennec Alpha, (Fennec is now in Beta) we showcased an initial default theme created to make mobile browsing easy on the fingers as well as the eyes.  Now that a bit of time has passed, we’ve begun brainstorming what another pass at the UI might look like – seeing how we [...]

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Sep7'08

Skinning Fennec – Awesomebar

Next we have the awesomebar and its awesomeness in weeee mobile form.

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Sep5'08

Skinning Fennec – Preferenes side pane

Yet another screen for your viewing pleasure!  This time we visit the preferences pane and all the goodies you can toggle within.

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Sep5'08

Skinning Fennec – Initial Screens

We’ve been plugging away at the default theme for Fennec and I’d like to share where we are thus far in the design.  The following screens are the work in progress and any comments/concerns are always welcome!

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Sep2'08

Browsing on the go, Mozilla style.

Hello all!  Welcome to the beginnings of what will be a series of posts detailing the work I am currently involved in designing the default theme for Mozilla’s answer to mobile browsing, currently codenamed Fennec.
To start things off, I thought I’d share an example of the look and feel I’m playing around with at the [...]

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Jul30'08

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.

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Jul30'08

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.

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