The rounded design of the active tab signals the ability to easily grab and move tabs as needed. Inspired tab design: Floating tabs neatly contain information and offer cues only when you need them, like visual indicators for audio controls. “Tabs are a funny thing to fixate on, but when you talk about a browser, it’s hard not to talk about tabs.” Firefox design team We also reduced visual noise by removing unnecessary iconography and provided clearer labels. The streamlined menu puts priority actions quickly at your fingertips. Streamlined menus: We consolidated extra menus to be more direct and intuitive. We removed visual clutter to focus on the most important navigation items. Our new toolbar is simplified so you get to the good stuff effortlessly. Simplified toolbar: The Firefox toolbar is where you type a URL, so it’s where the action starts. Starting June 1, you can say hello to a fresh new Firefox, designed to get you where you want to go even faster. Our user research guided the choices and validated that we were solving the right problems for people.
That meant paring down and streamlining over adding and expanding. We worked to deliver a cohesive experience so that people felt the same calming comfort, no matter where they use Firefox - on a computer, phone or tablet. Extensive planning, thought and intent has been put in behind the scene to make the new Firefox flow smoothly in order for you not to notice it, and to have it operate seamlessly with the back-end.įacing a chaotic world online, one of our design team’s pillars was to make Firefox feel calm.
But a good user experience is also just the tip of the iceberg in terms of the actual work it takes to make. With any good design, if it does its job and works well, you probably don’t think much about it. The immediately visible part of Firefox - the front-end elements like the tab bar and navigation bar that surround a website - seems fairly small at first glance. “When it came time to redesign the Firefox browser, we sought to create unity across the visual language of the browser while setting a foundation for some really interesting things to come.” Firefox design team At the same time, 95% of what you see when you open a browser window belongs to the website that you’re there to view rather than Firefox itself. Firefox does much more than briskly load websites on a screen it instantly processes information embedded in those sites and acts on your preferences, all while tightly protecting your security and privacy. does a ton of work behind the scenes on behalf of the people who use it. The back-end of your browser - stuff like the code, configurations, security settings, processes, etc.
The resulting new look is a beautiful, fast experience that delivers on what people do most in Firefox. They refined, revised and refined some more. They studied how people interact with the browser, observing their patterns and behaviors. For the Firefox refresh, our product design team obsessed over every detail - spacing, words, colors, icons and more. Updating the design of a technology product is a thrilling challenge.
We pored over the browser’s user interface pixel by pixel, measured the value users were getting from our massive library of features, and ultimately streamlined the Firefox experience to be clean, inviting and easier to use on every device. A new Firefox is coming your way on June 1 with a fresh look designed for today’s modern life online.