Web

A simple, clean, beautiful view of the web.

Participants

Design: WilliamJonMcCann, JakubSteiner

Development: XanLopez, ClaudioSaavedra, DiegoEscalanteUrrelo

Objectives

Primary:

Focus on the current page content

Provide inter page navigation

Support: Printing Saving page as PDF Sharing links easily

Integrate web search functionality

Support in page search

Support page multi-tasking without reloading content, interrupting active sessions, or losing form data

Displaying page view history

Clearing page view history

Saving form submission data

Saving web usernames and passwords

Provide a reminding function for things to do/read later

Identify pages as important so they may appear more prominently in search results

Make it very easy to reopen a closed page

Provide a way to turn a page into an application

Use the OS notification system for page notifications

Secondary:

Reader view

Non-Goals:

Not designed to be a web developer tool

Relevant Art

Opera for Windows

Safari

Chrome

WebOS 3

Internet Explorer 10

More here.

Helm

Interesting Browser History Stuff

Research

"Parallel Browsing Behavior on the Web", Jeff Huang et al., 2010

"Web Page Revisitation Revisited: Implications of a Long-term Click-stream Study of Browser Usage", Obendorf et al., CHI 2007 Proceedings

"A Study of Tabbed Browsing Among Mozilla Firefox Users", Dubroy et al., CHI 2010

"Large Scale Analysis of Web Revisitation Patterns", Adar et al., CHI 2008

"The Perfect Search Engine Is Not Enough: A Study of Orienteering Behavior in Directed Search", Teevan et al., CHI 2004

"Not quite the average: An empirical study of Web use", Weinreich et al., ACM Transactions on the Web, 2(1): 1-31, 2008

"Web Page Revisitation Revisited: Implecations of Long-term Click-stream Study of Browser Usage", Obendorf et al., CHI Proceedings, 2007

Notes from Weinreich et al and Obendorf et al:

A lot of browsing can be described as "hub and spoke": lots of pages opened in new tabs and windows from a small number of pages.

The majority of users do not tend to use bookmarks.

Most page revisitation is short term: the 15 most recently viewed pages has been found to account for 88% of page revisits.

Short-term revisitation strategies center on the sequence in which pages were visited.

Long-term revisitation is poorly supported. Browser histories go virtually unused.

Discussion & Design Experiments

Tentative Design

Latest wireframes

Form filler design page

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