TabViz wins Best in Class: Innovation in Design Challenge

We are pleased to announce that TabViz won the honor of Best in Class: Innovation in the Mozilla Labs Summer 09 Design Challenge. The results, including all the other projects with honors and honorable mentions are available on the design challenge site.

We are amazed and pleased with this result and the publicity that has gone with it. Our prototype now has over 5,000 downloads and our video over 24,000 views! We have many people giving suggestions and reporting bugs.

That said, I do want to apologize for not having a Firefox 3.5 compatible version available earlier. We weren’t anticipating so many people would want to try our extension! The file size was also ridiculously large because I forgot to clean things up. These issues are both resolved now.

The last thing I want to say is to reiterate that our prototype is exactly that – it is a proof of concept and a work in progress and we know there are many issues with it. One user mentioned that it logs your browsing activity more than it should be necessary. This is helpful for us in testing, so that when a tab hierarchy doesn’t turn out how we think it should, we can go back and see what was logged. This info is never sent to us, we only use it when we test on our own machines.

If you want to help make our prototype into an awesome extension found in the add-ons directory, please let us know if you encounter problems by adding them to the issues list on our Google code site. We would also very much welcome any help with the code that people are willing to offer. You can contact us at tab-viz@googlegroups.com if you have any questions or want to get involved.

Thanks, everyone, for showing so much enthusiasm for our project!