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=Background, Process=
A small team was brought together to explore and guide the development of an update to the default theme for Firefox 2. The team consisted of:
* Chris Beard (VP Products)
* Ben Goodger
* Mike Beltzner
* Mike Connor
* Kevin Gerich
* Jon Hicks
* Stephen Horlander
* Joe Hughes
* Brian Rakowski
* Mike Schroepfer
* Linus Upson
Three vendors ([http://www.metadesign.com Meta], [http://www.radiantcore.com Radiant Core], and [http://www.raizlabs.com Raiz Labs] were asked to submit proposals for a new theme. They were given the criteria that the new theme had to
* respect OS native look and feel
* appear modern and contemporary with current web and client apps
* appear consistent across platforms
* have minimum to zero code impact requirements (ie: all CSS and icon work)
The returned proposals led the team to focus in on four specific areas of priority for Firefox 2:
# '''Search Bar:''' new icon required for the "search" action, design required to visually associate an "action button" with a textbox, design for showing search suggestions, design for making it clear that user can select the search engine.
# '''Icon Polish:''' use shapes and metaphors from the existing *Stripe themes, but unify (and soften?) the colour palette and update the edges, detail, styling and gloss to match better on Vista, with modern XP apps, and OS X.
# '''Tab Strip:''' improve distinction of selected tabs, differentiate appearance of background tabs from tab strip, optimize close tab button for use on all tabs.
# '''Buttons in Textboxes:''' make buttons that appear in textboxes distinctive and provide affordances to indicate that they are "clickable" elements.
Of the vendors, the team selected [http://www.radiantcore.com Radiant Core] to continue working towards an implementation of the new theme.
= Design Mockups =
''coming in the next few minutes''
A small team was brought together to explore and guide the development of an update to the default theme for Firefox 2. The team consisted of:
* Chris Beard (VP Products)
* Ben Goodger
* Mike Beltzner
* Mike Connor
* Kevin Gerich
* Jon Hicks
* Stephen Horlander
* Joe Hughes
* Brian Rakowski
* Mike Schroepfer
* Linus Upson
Three vendors ([http://www.metadesign.com Meta], [http://www.radiantcore.com Radiant Core], and [http://www.raizlabs.com Raiz Labs] were asked to submit proposals for a new theme. They were given the criteria that the new theme had to
* respect OS native look and feel
* appear modern and contemporary with current web and client apps
* appear consistent across platforms
* have minimum to zero code impact requirements (ie: all CSS and icon work)
The returned proposals led the team to focus in on four specific areas of priority for Firefox 2:
# '''Search Bar:''' new icon required for the "search" action, design required to visually associate an "action button" with a textbox, design for showing search suggestions, design for making it clear that user can select the search engine.
# '''Icon Polish:''' use shapes and metaphors from the existing *Stripe themes, but unify (and soften?) the colour palette and update the edges, detail, styling and gloss to match better on Vista, with modern XP apps, and OS X.
# '''Tab Strip:''' improve distinction of selected tabs, differentiate appearance of background tabs from tab strip, optimize close tab button for use on all tabs.
# '''Buttons in Textboxes:''' make buttons that appear in textboxes distinctive and provide affordances to indicate that they are "clickable" elements.
Of the vendors, the team selected [http://www.radiantcore.com Radiant Core] to continue working towards an implementation of the new theme.
= Design Mockups =
''coming in the next few minutes''
