{"id":308,"date":"2012-11-14T16:06:25","date_gmt":"2012-11-14T15:06:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.igalia.com\/femorandeira\/?p=308"},"modified":"2013-04-17T17:10:13","modified_gmt":"2013-04-17T15:10:13","slug":"ephy-sketch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.igalia.com\/femorandeira\/2012\/11\/14\/ephy-sketch\/","title":{"rendered":"Exploring design ideas for Epiphany \u2014 interactively"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some time ago, I wrote a small functional prototype to explore some of the design ideas<\/a> for the evolution of the GNOME Web browser<\/a> (maintained by my colleagues at Igalia<\/a>). I thought that it would be a good idea to show these experiments to a wider public.<\/p>\n

The basic idea by the GNOME designers is that, instead of tabs, open pages would be placed in an overview: you would click on a thumbnail there to return to a certain web page, and clicking again on “Pages” would take you back to the overview. A possible evolution of this would be to integrate bookmarks<\/a> and reading lists<\/a> in that overview.<\/p>\n

This first video shows the interaction as described in the current design<\/a>: in the overview, open pages are shown in a horizontal list, which gets reordered so that the leftmost element in the list corresponds to the last open tab. Note how the thumbnail is updated whenever we go back to “Pages”, and how the list scrolls to the left to show the most recently opened sites.<\/p>\n