Where to change preferences you’ve once set for a website, how much data has a site used this month, and what passwords are all saved for it? There are a lot of website-specific settings and browser features on the mobile web today, and for all of them, the Android version of Google Chrome should get a new interface. As you can see in the mock-up above, this concept imagines a new Site info-feature that would be built directly into Chrome’s overflow menu and solely focused on all kinds of site-wide features. So besides sharing, printing or bookmarking https://viewout.net/2016/10/10/concept/Google-Chrome-Android-Site-Info-Concept, this would be the place to overview and control everything related with the overall website https://viewout.net, like changing the permissions you once gave to it, having access to saved passwords and much much more. Google Chrome on Android actually already has some kind of Site info feature today, but it’s completely underdeveloped. It’s placed rather prominently, though, at the top of Chrome’s overflow menu (and just so should the new implementation of this concept be reached), but activating it only displays one coarse sentence about the site’s security level, as well as a button that leads to another full-screen interface, which also features just one or two options as well. In contrast to this, the new Site info-implementation would be a collection of many features that are currently scattered all around Google Chrome, as well as also consist of many completely new features. Because of the number of new or updated features that would be included in the interface, Google would probably have to introduce them one after another rather than all at once with the new Site info implementation. Interestingly, many of the features would probably be too irrelevant without this interface, either cluttering the main menu (one or two small features might fit well in there, but not so many small and equally relevant ones) or otherwise being hidden too deep in the settings or some other interfaces to be accessible and still useful when needed.

As you can see in the concept pictures, an important aspect of this concept would be that the Site info implementation would not be built into some settings-like full-screen interface or another special new interface form like the current implementation, but directly into Chrome’s overflow menu acting kind like a submenu. On the one hand side, this would be the only logical place for this feature to be as easily and quickly accessible. Chrome’s overflow menu is already very well-thought out and refined today and certainly the most integral part of the browser’s mobile experience, nowhere else would features be as integrated into the experience and as good and easily accessible. On the other hand side, this place would also have many other advantages, like that the user would stay in touch with the site he came from, which makes a lot of sense for such a site-focused feature, or that it would also be a very light-weight implementation that could very easily be closed just by interacting with the website again. Main features in the Site info interface should be implemented in the overflow menu as well.