Firefox/Features/Theme Refinement and Evolution (Australis)

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Status

Theme Refinement and Evolution (Australis)
Stage Design
Status In progress
Release target `
Health OK
Status note Creating Design Specifications

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Team

Product manager Asa Dotzler
Directly Responsible Individual Stephen Horlander
Lead engineer `
Security lead Curtis Koenig
Privacy lead `
Localization lead `
Accessibility lead `
QA lead Paul Silaghi
UX lead Stephen Horlander
Product marketing lead `
Operations lead `
Additional members `

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Open issues/risks

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Stage 1: Definition

1. Feature overview

Firefox 4 has established a strong visual foundation with the theme/UI refresh. Going forward we can incrementally build on that foundation focusing on consistency, precision and refinement.

This feature falls primarily in the Experience category (from the "Discover, Experience, and Connect" vision statement.)

  • Consistency: Unify consistent elements throughout the UI such as colors, margins, padding, spacing and border radii
  • Precision: Stricter adherence to detailed design specs
  • Refinement: Evolve and polish the existing UI

Major Changes

  • All Platforms
    • Curved tabs
    • Remove tab affordance from background tabs
    • Separate Bookmark Star from locationBar and merge with Bookmarks Menu item
  • Windows (All)
    • Draw entire window frame including Caption Buttons
  • Windows XP
    • Custom window frame style for all default themes

Changes

  • All Platforms
    • Unify the interface to include consistent border-radii, dimensions, spacing, margins, icons and color palette
    • Refine all aspects of the existing UI
    • Improved appearance for Personas
    • Update In-Content UI Styles
    • Update Arrow Panel Styles

2. Users & use cases

All Users

3. Dependencies

  • Implement window frame in XUL –  bug 590945
  • Tabs in titlebar support for OSX –  bug 625989
  • Ability to manipulate window controls for OSX
  • Create a plan for addressing Linux platform limitations

4. Requirements

  • Incremental improvements and refinements that meet established design criteria

Non-goals

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Stage 2: Design

5. Functional specification

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6. User experience design

Stage 3: Planning

7. Implementation plan

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8. Reviews

Security review

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Privacy review

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Localization review

`

Accessibility

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Quality Assurance review

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Operations review

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Stage 4: Development

9. Implementation

bug 732583

Stage 5: Release

10. Landing criteria

` {{#set:Feature open issues and risks=` |Feature overview=Firefox 4 has established a strong visual foundation with the theme/UI refresh. Going forward we can incrementally build on that foundation focusing on consistency, precision and refinement.

This feature falls primarily in the Experience category (from the "Discover, Experience, and Connect" vision statement.)

  • Consistency: Unify consistent elements throughout the UI such as colors, margins, padding, spacing and border radii
  • Precision: Stricter adherence to detailed design specs
  • Refinement: Evolve and polish the existing UI

Major Changes

  • All Platforms
    • Curved tabs
    • Remove tab affordance from background tabs
    • Separate Bookmark Star from locationBar and merge with Bookmarks Menu item
  • Windows (All)
    • Draw entire window frame including Caption Buttons
  • Windows XP
    • Custom window frame style for all default themes

Changes

  • All Platforms
    • Unify the interface to include consistent border-radii, dimensions, spacing, margins, icons and color palette
    • Refine all aspects of the existing UI
    • Improved appearance for Personas
    • Update In-Content UI Styles
    • Update Arrow Panel Styles

|Feature users and use cases=All Users |Feature dependencies=* Implement window frame in XUL –  bug 590945

  • Tabs in titlebar support for OSX –  bug 625989
  • Ability to manipulate window controls for OSX
  • Create a plan for addressing Linux platform limitations

|Feature requirements=* Incremental improvements and refinements that meet established design criteria |Feature non-goals=` |Feature functional spec=` |Feature ux design=* Windows 7

|Feature implementation plan=` |Feature security review=` |Feature privacy review=` |Feature localization review=` |Feature accessibility review=` |Feature qa review=` |Feature operations review=` |Feature implementation notes=bug 732583 |Feature landing criteria=` }}

Feature details

Priority P1
Rank 4
Theme / Goal `
Roadmap User Experience
Secondary roadmap `
Feature list Desktop
Project `
Engineering team Desktop front-end

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Team status notes

  status notes
Products ` `
Engineering ` `
Security ` `
Privacy ` `
Localization ` `
Accessibility ` `
Quality assurance ` `
User experience ` `
Product marketing ` `
Operations ` `

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