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

[Elio Qoshi]

Thank you Jeff! I am extremely happy to be involved here, both as a Tor
and Mozilla contractor, so I think I have a good grasp of both worlds.

Looking forward to talk more about this in the coming months. Let's
cover this in the next UX Meeting?

Cheers,
Elio

On 04/13/2017 10:16 PM, Linda Naeun Lee wrote:
> 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
> <mailto: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/%7Eshorlander/projects/photon/Mockups/macOS.html>
>     https://people-mozilla.org/~shorlander/projects/photon/Mockups/windows-10.html
>     <https://people-mozilla.org/%7Eshorlander/projects/photon/Mockups/windows-10.html>
>     https://people-mozilla.org/~shorlander/projects/photon/Mockups/linux.html
>     <https://people-mozilla.org/%7Eshorlander/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://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/20843>
>     https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BzRaXGZ006aoWHJLd0hBT3IyRUE/view
>     <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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