New mozilla.com to feature an organic design
As with previous main Firefox releases, Mozilla is working on a new version of mozilla.com for Firefox 3 launch later this year.
The redesign, commissioned to The Royal Order, a Chicago-based design agency, with illustrations by Delicious Design League, is currently in draft status but the mockup below, posted by Mozilla’s Creative Director, John Slater, is close to what we will see for Firefox 3.
John explains the concept behind the design:
Our somewhat ambitious goal for the illustrations was that they should abstractly reflect the good things about the Web itself…things like connectivity, collaboration, creativity, etc.
The illustration of the tree is meant to suggest the power and possibility of the Web, as well as the way Mozilla works. And the various handmade elements, such as the pencil-drawn lines and background shadings are all meant to evoke the grassroots, people-powered nature of Mozilla itself.
I like it. What about you? Leave your comments here or on John’s post.
Comments
JP
I know that everything must be designed to death nowadays to become mass-compatible, but is it really necessary to put the design into the hands of a company whose web page is nothing but flash?
Form over function, prettyness over usefulness … is it really necessary to take that road with Firefox and its web sites?
I dont want to see totally unmotivated balloons and little animals in trees on a browser website just because it is “pretty”.
Baroque Kitsch for the masses designed by overpaid kids with an Apple computer … does Mozilla.org have to join this cult and spend money on it?
Diseño de la nueva web de Mozilla.com… para cuando se lance el Firefox 3, a finales de este año :
[...] Mozilla está trabajando en el nuevo diseño de su web, para cuando se lance la versión definitiva de Firefox 3, que se espera que sea a finales de este año. [...]
onicSockPuppet
The new design rocks. Don’t listen to JP, he’s an idiot. (And yes, JP, mass appeal is
Why Firefox is 100% organic software? : Mozilla Links
[...] recently, Mozilla has started using the term organic as a way to describe Firefox. For example, the new mozilla.com prototypes feature trees, animals and balloons to suggest this, and the ongoing Firefox 3 T-shirt design [...]
Why Firefox is 100% organic software? : Mozilla Links
[...] recently, Mozilla has started using the term organic as a way to describe Firefox. For example, the new mozilla.com prototypes feature trees, animals and balloons to suggest this, and the ongoing Firefox 3 T-shirt design [...]
Roman
I agree with JP — this design is ugly, without concept, and unnecessary. “Organic” is a meaningless buzzword. Nothing of the design conveys anything that Firefox excels in or Mozilla.org stands for. Maybe this is the mainstream taste of youngsters with even uglier Myspace pages. It is a pathetic failure for a webpage like mozilla.org.
Nothing at all would have been better than this insult of the eye and the mind.
Angel
Sounds like a step up for the developers at Mozilla. Honestly, the new page is looking good.
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