Comments on: Tab View vs. Application View

By: sandrar

sandrar — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 22:26:34 +0000

Hi! I was surfing and found your blog post… nice! I love your blog. Cheers! Sandra. R.

By: James John Malcolm

James John Malcolm — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 22:00:46 +0000

Make it like Quickview on multiple files!

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10 Reasons Firefox won’t be worried about Chrome « Boriss’ Blog — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 02:07:41 +0000

[...] of extensions for organizing, sorting, coloring, grouping, fading, and poking your tabs , but also cool new features are being added that allow you to visually navigate your content. How do you find your tab in [...]

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~robcee/ » Blog Archive » WikifyTabs — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 13:08:43 +0000

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By: jboriss

jboriss — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 19:15:28 +0000

Danielle –

Thanks very much for the insightful blog post and mockups – it’s always great to have more people in the discussion! You talk about some very important ways that people use tabs for different workstyles (this post by Bryan Clark is another good one on the subject). And, these different ways of viewing tabs – by time, priority, hierarchy, etc – are important areas to begin brainstorming in as the browser takes on a more substantial role in computing.

To develop your mockup further, I would focus on deciding what exactly are the important interaction methods to users. Your mockups combines many methods, but one important part of UX is deciding what not to include. As it is, I worry that your mockup is a bit too complicated for our average user to find useful. Could the user find what they want quickly, in the time of a gesture or keystroke? I can see how this would fit your workstyle and the workstyle of certain groups – which means it might make an excellent add-on – but when designing standard features it’s important to figure out what generalizations can be made about how many kinds of users work. This provides them with a good base interaction that can be useful to beginners as well as novices without overwhelming them. So, what are the most important aspects of the design of tab navigation? What is the primary method people would use to find an item?

Again, thanks so much for the input, and I hope you’ll stick around as we continue the discussion.

- Boriss

By: dria

dria — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 13:25:07 +0000

For the tab view I would really want each site’s favicon displayed somewhere. With the new URL bar and tabs and such, the favicon is my primary method for scanning/spotting entries for a particular site most of the time.

By: Danielle Fong

Danielle Fong — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 03:00:07 +0000

Okay, my paper mockup is up!

http://einfall.wordpress.com/2008/08/24/enhance-multitasking-improve-our-minds/

By: Danielle Fong

Danielle Fong — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 08:56:32 +0000

Hi there,

I’ve been thinking about tab navigation a lot, and I think I’ve developed a pretty good and interesting solution. I wrote a blog post to make a case for it.

http://einfall.wordpress.com/2008/08/24/enhance-multitasking-improve-our-minds/

I thought that I should post this now, in the interest of being part of the conversation, but I do not, of yet, have a (computer) drawing or mockup, though I’m working on one. If there’s interest, I’ll find a way to scan my paper mockups, and put them up.