Mozilla Aurora

It’s being billed as an open conversation on how to evolve the web browser and as part of an ongoing initiative by Adaptive Path and Mozilla to encourage designers and developers to contribute their own visions of the future of the browser. Adaptive Path, the user experience and product development consultancy firm, have just released the first part of a new web interface concept called Aurora, in collaboration with Mozilla. Aurora is a concept video presenting one possible future user experience for the Web, created by Adaptive Path as part of the Mozilla Labs concept browser series. Aurora is a set of nice mockups, illustrating the kinds of product designs Adaptive Path like, showing their vision of the future.

The concept was originally designed by Adaptive Path and isn’t immediately representative of Mozilla’s future direction for Firefox but is likely to influence any future updates or replacements for the web browser. Aurora is a concept video presenting one possible future user experience for the Web, created by Leading design and UI company Adaptive Path as part of the Mozilla Labs concept browser series. There’s some gorgeous, imaginative, and high-tech stuff going on here, the release of Aurora is part of the launch of Mozilla Labs’ browser concept series, an ongoing initiative to encourage designers and developers to contribute their own visions of the future of the browser and the Web.

Aurora explores new ways people could interact with the Web in the future based on projected technological trends and real-world scenarios. Aurora would also organize bookmarks in a 3D system potentially better-suited to cells and would also merge tasks from the main system into a dock-like interface. Aurora is their take on how the web browser could evolve and work in the future, by harnessing masses of data within a very fluid and highly interactive user interface. Obviously Aurora isn’t being physically built or put into production, Adaptive Path have just given themselves the remit of creating a great browsing experience by stitching together valuable data and entwining it with people’s networks.

Adaptive Path’s interface concept video is actually the first part in a four part series of videos demonstrating the potential a browser like Aurora could offer. Currently codenamed Aurora, the concept would revolve around the notion of data and pages organized into cells, or clusters of relevant information. “Aurora is intended to serve as a springboard for an open discussion about how to evolve the user experience of the Web browser,” according to Adaptive Path, a San Francisco-based design firm that is developing Aurora for Mozilla Labs.