Browsing Concept from Adaptive Path
Adaptive Path put together a proof of concept for a new way of browsing the web as part of the Mozilla Labs Concept Browser Series. Adaptive Path gives a description of the project, called Aurora:
Aurora is a concept video exploring one possible future user experience for the Web, created by Adaptive Path as part of the Mozilla Labs concept series.
Being able to directly manipulate content in the browser, have a seamless browsing and collaboration experience, and the methods shown for organizing user content are definitely somethings worth shooting for. Granted I’m a guy who uses key commands or gestures wherever possible to avoid the Finder, drilling down to look for files, or using the mouse to access menu items.
August 5th, 2008 at 7:52 am
Yeah, the proof of concept, while a little gratuitous in areas does point to some salient features we should start to expect in our UI’s.
What surprised me (happily) was how prominent Data Visualization was to the whole direct user experience, it was a core part of the whole concept. While the technology is now here to support that, I still think the web needs to catch up with some level of semantics and normalization of data that will allow the data structures underneath the visuals to integrate as seamlessly as the video implies.
- Tom