Regarding the Mozilla Labs part of this thread, I started following Aza's concept mockups about 8-10weeks ago. In watching the progress and checking out the archives I found myself feeling both humbled and inspired that he/MozLabs were opening up their process to public debate and had called for participation to anyone interested. Feeling inspired, I decided to throw my hat in the ring with a concept of my own that blended a few of Aza'z ideas with my own twist on it and posted it in reply to his with absolutely no expectations as to it's uptake.
As it turns out, Aza did find something of value from my mockup and recently referenced it on the MozLabs Blog here: http://labs.mozilla.com/2009/04/firefox-new-tab-visual-update/. Now, the point of me posting this has nothing to do with personal gain. Rather it has everything to do with encouraging our community to engage with Open Source UX and that even the smallest idea can make a difference. The dev community clearly has a huge head start on their side of the "open source" movement and we should all be looking at the massive opportunity in front of us to make an equally large impression on the UXD/IXD community by not only participating ourselves but by also encouraging others to participate as much as possible. We have nothing to lose and everything to gain. Cheers, Chris . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=40933 ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
