Web

A simple, clean, beautiful view of the web.

Participants

Design: WilliamJonMcCann, JakubSteiner

Development: XanLopez, ClaudioSaavedra, DiegoEscalanteUrrelo

Objectives

Primary:

• Focus on the current page content
• Provide inter page navigation
• Support:
  • Printing
  • Saving page as PDF
  • Sharing links easily
• Integrate web search functionality
• Support in page search
• Support page multi-tasking without reloading content, interrupting active sessions, or losing form data
• Displaying page view history
• Clearing page view history
• Saving form submission data
• Saving web usernames and passwords
• Provide a reminding function for things to do/read later
• Identify pages as important so they may appear more prominently in search results
• Make it very easy to reopen a closed page
• Provide a way to turn a page into an application
• Use the OS notification system for page notifications

Secondary:

• Reader view

Non-Goals:

• Not designed to be a web developer tool

Relevant Art

Opera for Windows

Safari

Chrome

WebOS 3

Internet Explorer 10

More here.

Helm

Interesting Browser History Stuff

• Nebulus demo (video)

• Thumbstrips Firefox Add-on

• Voyage Firefox Add-on

• Nice data visualisations from Digg

• http://www.hooeey.com/

• Trailblazer

• Mozilla Labs Winter 2009 (the 'Utility' Winner has some nice ideas)

Research

• "Parallel Browsing Behavior on the Web", Jeff Huang et al., 2010
• "Web Page Revisitation Revisited: Implications of a Long-term Click-stream Study of Browser Usage", Obendorf et al., CHI 2007 Proceedings
• "A Study of Tabbed Browsing Among Mozilla Firefox Users", Dubroy et al., CHI 2010
• "Large Scale Analysis of Web Revisitation Patterns", Adar et al., CHI 2008
• "The Perfect Search Engine Is Not Enough: A Study of Orienteering Behavior in Directed Search", Teevan et al., CHI 2004
• "Not quite the average: An empirical study of Web use", Weinreich et al., ACM Transactions on the Web, 2(1): 1-31, 2008
• "Web Page Revisitation Revisited: Implecations of Long-term Click-stream Study of Browser Usage", Obendorf et al., CHI Proceedings, 2007

Notes from Weinreich et al and Obendorf et al:

• A lot of browsing can be described as "hub and spoke": lots of pages opened in new tabs and windows from a small number of pages.
• The majority of users do not tend to use bookmarks.
• Most page revisitation is short term: the 15 most recently viewed pages has been found to account for 88% of page revisits.
• Short-term revisitation strategies center on the sequence in which pages were visited.
• Long-term revisitation is poorly supported. Browser histories go virtually unused.

Discussion & Design Experiments

• Tabs and tabless design experiment - some old musings on tabs

• Page queue design experiment

• Some comments on open link behavior

• Research and design experiments for bookmarking

Tentative Design

Latest wireframes

Form filler design page

See Also

• https://github.com/hbons/guadec-designs

• Transfers app design page

• Sourcerank page ranking algorithm

• Blog post: "Exploring design ideas for Epiphany — interactively"

• Safari home page

• Chrome home page

• Firefox Planet UX