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| Aurora: Visual Design |
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| Monday, 18 August 2008 17:15 |
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Looking back at the seminal web browser Mosaic as we started visual design for the Aurora project, I was surprised to find that our present browsers haven’t changed much in the last decade. As you can see, the general functionalities are constructed with similar items such as URL field, bookmarking, back/forward button.
With Aurora, we envisioned a browser that provides a less static, more natural interaction — a direct and intuitive way to interact within the web, similar to the way we relate to objects in the real world. We came up with the following key concepts for the visual design of Aurora: The visual aesthetic should convey lightness and simplicity. The spatial layout should feel clean, open, with an expansive three-dimensional space. The spatial view reflects events unfolding in real time. Archived items are presented at a distance while current items appear immediately in front of you, suggesting time and space. Objects invite you to grab them and are governed by real world physics with responsive feedback. Everything you see in the space is touchable. You can grab, drag, and drop in three-dimensional space. Objects are floating subtly in real-time and are seemingly influenced by gravity as well as other objects and time. Object groups are clustered by relationship and exhibit motion behavior reflective of their association. Colors are utilized as cues to different behaviors — highlights of different colors denote notification, clustering, drop zone. Shapes are used to differentiate objects such as people, places, and data. Process We began with the mood board below to capture the emotional characteristics of the browser’s look & feel. These images from the mood board reflect visual ideas that were explored: bubbles, dew: soft and organic yet structured ethereal entities.
We then explored shapes that felt playful and expressive. We created shapes that are associated with the function of things.
Explorations on the wheel navigation element:
Explorations of the spatial view and navigational look & feel:
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