Zipping the new tab page

Quick reference is essential to productivity in the modern age. Yet, most new tab pages (NTP) didn't do a really good job of supporting it. 

Current Google Chrome's NTP (Photo: Google)

Navigation depends a lot on the NTP. A horribly-designed NTP increases cognitive load and interaction costs. Today, after decades of evolving the browser, they've become easy to use and free of distraction. Still, I'm not completely satisfied. NTP are aesthetically pleasing, but other than that, why the huge amount of white space on the NTP? 

A quick take on tab navigation

Switching between tabs has never been an easy task. Preview tabs on hover is a pretty good solution to this, however the preview is often small and the animation is rather slack, even sluggish. And I don't want to check the preview of every single 100+ tabs I'm opening. So alternatives and modifications are born and each has provided interesting approaches to this whole tab navigation muddle.

Let's go through some of them.

Redesigning msconfig.exe

There is nothing wrong with msconfig.exe really since all UX guidelines provided back then are followed closely and consistently. This is just an attempt of mine to make the overall design friendlier to the users, to reduce human mistakes and of course to bring the Fluent look-and-feel into this legacy program. 

Introducing the new System Configuration Utility.

Redesigning the 'Open' dialog

Imagine you have two folders at two different locations that contain files you need to import respectively. For me that is the scenario that I have had to deal with a lot, so I longed for a fix. This is what my concept looks like:

First post

Hey! I'm @jackerb07 from Twitter and I post design stuffs. It all started in a day near the end of July. I've just finished school curriculum so I got some time free. Searching through the sketches I drew and all the frustrations and ideas and inspo I have had for a long time, I decided that I have to share all these things into the world. Although foreign to the industry, I persist with my interest. The fear of being smashed along the way is incomparable to the pain of keeping myself away from what I love to do. That's it.

Some important notices:

Do remember that my Twitter accounts and this blog contains highly subjective comments that can be changed in no time as my adventure progresses. That is why it is not a good idea to rely on my opinions or take me at my words. Just don't. 

Also I'm in no way affiliated with any corporations, specifically Microsoft, that I create products redesign of.