All products featured on WIRED are independently selected by our editors. However, we may receive compensation from retailers and/or from purchases of products through these links.
Mozilla's Spring Design Challenge, which encourages designers to rethink the Firefox homepage, has entered its final phase. The top ten "people's choice" designs are now up for a second round of voting.
To vote for your favorites, head over to the People's Choice voting page (note that you'll need a Mozilla Labs account to vote). The top ten designs, along with links to the video demos explaining them, can be found on the Mozilla Labs design challenge site.
While there's no guarantee that any of the people's choice concepts will actually make it into Firefox, there are several compelling designs and a wide range of ideas on display -- everything from the very simple to complex social aggregation tools.
The goal of this challenge was to imagine a new home page tab for Firefox. Eventually, Mozilla plans to actually move the home page concept out of the menu bar and into its own semi-permanent tab. If that's not to your liking, you'll still be able to disable the home tab, or simply set it to a web page as you might be doing now. But Mozilla hopes to make the home tab a bit more powerful.
Such a page could, for example, filter through your history, add-ons, bookmarks -- or pretty much anything stored in Firefox -- and present that data in novel ways. It could, as Daniel Goodwin's entry proposes, turn into a social networking hub, or it could remain something much simpler as Alberto Moreno's design outlines.
For a complete list of all the entries in this year's challenge, head to the main design challenge page. Winners, both "people's choice" and those picked by Mozilla, will be announced in March.
See Also:
