Labs/Design-Challenge/Uni-Fall09

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Mozilla Labs Design Challenge: Uni Fall '09

Links and Precedents

Desires

  • Speed, get what I want fast
  • Save current state
  • Prioritize
  • organized history
  • simple interface
  • share cool things
  • retrace my steps
  • fuzzy search (interpret dreams)
  • I want to see what the NYTimes website looked like last Wednesday morning
  • see my browsing trends (inc'l most visited)
  • Better integrated history in browser, FLUID
  • More specific, meaningful, and EASY bookmarking
  • I want to search my history by topic
  • I want to share my history
  • I want to mark parts of history that are important
  • I want to visualize my usage patterns

Obstacles

  • memory
  • not right info
  • i'm lost
  • the content on the site has changed
  • i'm confused
  • time
  • too much info
  • i'm lazy
  • Add to but rarely use links from Delicious
  • Lack of instant access to history, Currently have to access through menus & has New Window
  • Losing history page (gets lost among all windows)
  • Keyword search isn't broad enough
  • Browser crashing
  • Wifi browser authentication
  • I don't know how to
  • I'm concerned about privacy
  • Existing ones suck
  • No mechanism to do it

User Stories

"I often remember what a page looked like, something about its composition and color. I'm usually diligent with marking sites I'm interested in with Delicious, but I very rarely check them later on or even bother to mark them until I do a mass 'tab close'. Plus, tags don't help me in this situation. I wish I had something that could use my 'fuzzy' recollection of a page to find it again." Mikejedw


"Even though I often bookmark the websites that I feel interested in, I usually don't use the bookmark because I  don't categorize it that much. I use the history from the location field by typing a few words, however in this case it is not easy to find specific page which I really want to visit again and I have to navigate from some of the page again. In this case we can't use forward button to re-generate (revive) the path that I have been through, which if possible, might be helpful for tracing and find the destination more easily." cre8ive


"I use tabbed browsing because I often find multiple links I'm interested in on a page. I tend to jump around a lot when I'm surfing or looking for something. I'll then keep those tabs open, read them and then close them when I'm done. But then if I want to go back to that tab, I can never figure out what path I took to get there. I know there's the 'Recently Closed Tabs' in the Bookmark dropdown, but I find that it's not organized well and I can't find that 1 article that I was really looking for, so I have to open them all up again which is annoying, and then search through them again. I wish there was a way to tag the article I was interested in, so my 'Recently Closed Tabs' section would remember that." aarondruck


"I prefer adding tabs to adding windows when opening pages. It's easier to navigate between the tabs because they are always locked at the top of browser window, and there are keyboard shortcut to tab through them. Windows tend to get lost and require more clicking/mousing around = more time. Even the keyboard shortcut for Windows is time consuming because you have to key through each one to read the title. However if I have too many tabs in one window I might start a new window, especially if I think I'll be opening lots of related tabs from a particular page.

One problem with tabs is when you right click on a link and 'open link in new tab' the link open in a new tab as though it's the start of a new browsing chain, you can't hit Back to see your path to that page. So if you close the original tab you can't get back to where you've been. It would be nice if you could 'open link in new tab' and the browsing history/path was transferred into that new tab." lbtran


"I find myself with multiple windows open, each containing dozens of tabs related to a certain topic or links from articles I've read in single session. I never close my browser because I don't want to lose the tabs. I wish there was a way to save windows of tabs to come back to later, or a way to save windows of tabs under different categories." and.bradshaw


"I was trying to show a useful tutorial to someone but I forgot the link. It wasn't good enough for my bookmarks and I visit about 100 sites a day. It would have been nice to tag the tutorial in my history as a tutorial and give it a star ranking. I think tagging and star ranking can get rid of the mess that bookmark organizing is entirely. I also have the problem of never wanting to close a useful tab because I know I will lose it. I sometimes put off shutting down my system just because I want that one site open and I don't want to lose it." drisc275


"The present firefox bookmark files are really hard to manage for normal users. If you search it on google, you will get an answer with a long location address (for the bookmark files) from your root path on the hard disk. What makes the matter worse, firefox 2.0 and firefox 3.0 use different formats to save the bookmarks. Firefox 2.0 uses a more static, page-like organization, while firefox 3.0 uses a database based organization that facilitates bookmark searching. But all these are too difficult for normal users to figure out. I remember that once my system crashed, and I had a firefox upgraded from 2.0 to 3.0 on the system. I trusted my experience and backed up the bookmark file under the 'favorites' folder. After I reinstalled my system, it turned out that I had only backed up the 2.0 version bookmark file that could no longer be used in firefox 3.0. And the real version 3.0 bookmark file was stored in a totally different place. What a frustrating experience!" myu

Ideas

  • spotlight for history
  • use color
  • stars *
  • retool google maps --> history map
  • tagging system
  • customize/personalize page titles that appear in the awesome bar or history
  • Hover state for fluid way to see visual image then descriptive data (timestamp, page name, domain)
  • Timeline AND path based browsing of history
  • Keyboard Shortcut! (for instant access to history and going through pages)
  • measure scroll position vs. site time
  • Storing the keywords from the content text. (manually or automatically) right-click? select text? select, CTRL-C?
  • better search algorithm for history
  • themed windows for browsing & search
  • suggest sites you might be interested in
  • bookmarks + history = :)
  • Cache webpage locally
  • Look for a cache at that page on the web.
  • overlapping and/or anchored window. more quick popup?
  • Allow user to attach their own semantics to their history
  • Be able to target what you are searching (keywork, title, url)
  • Create an iTunes model for sharing histories
  • Share locally via something like Bonjour
  • Bookmarking the time
  • Recording start/stop function
  • Integrate with personal calendar events
  • custom ranking of bookmarks
  • Design ones built around more specific & useful info
  • Coverflow history browsing mode on Safari
  • Google Search History Browser | Link
  • Google Reader Link[1] (can record how long you are on the article and it means you are interested in that article)
  • Quick history view for each tabs

Other Resources

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