[ux] Firefox' next UX refresh and impact on Tor Browser design

[Linda Naeun Lee]

Jeff:

Hi! I'm Linda, nice to meet you! I'm on the UX team here at Tor.

Thanks for giving us the heads up on the new, modern-looking skin. I
especially like how there is more of a contrast between the current tab and
other tabs, and that there is more space on the address bar. As you
mentioned, I think that extra space will be advantageous to us--we can add
some things to it without making the interface feel very crowded.

Isn't the design doc great? It was drafted by a volunteer UX designer,
Nina, who graciously gave us her suggestions. I wish we were able to
implement all the suggestions now, but we're currently working on some
other things things.

That being said, I currently do not see a reason why the change in skin
will negatively impact our ability to move forward with any changes we make
to the security slider or the design document suggestions on that document.
I might be missing something though, so I'll let others add to the
discussion too.

I'm personally excited about this new skin! Looks very nice. ٩(^‿^)۶

Cheers,
Linda

On Thu, Apr 13, 2017 at 3:06 PM, Lolint <lolint at protonmail.com> wrote:

> Hi everyone!
>
> If you're not aware, Firefox' will get a new skin (will land probably in
> version 57?) and this
> means that it will affect the next ESR, hence TBB :) Mockups of this new
> design are now
> available:
>
> https://people-mozilla.org/~shorlander/projects/photon/Mockups/macOS.html
> https://people-mozilla.org/~shorlander/projects/photon/
> Mockups/windows-10.html
> https://people-mozilla.org/~shorlander/projects/photon/Mockups/linux.html
> (broken at the moment)
>
> Concerning its impact I'm mainly thinking about:
>
> https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/20843
> https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BzRaXGZ006aoWHJLd0hBT3IyRUE/view
>
> The main advantage this have that I think about: Because the URL bar is
> now centered, and the search bar disappeared, that should leave more space
> for breaking the Tor
> Browser Button into different buttons as suggested in that beautiful
> design doc (the drive.g
> one).
>
> What are your thoughts on this? :)
>
> Best,
>
> --Jeff
>
>
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