Adaptive Path explores the future of the browser

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 explores new ways people could interact with the Web in the future based on projected technological trends and real-world scenarios.

People, places and things on the web are represented by objects in a three dimensional space. When users stop using objects, the objects drift off into the distance. Data objects can easily be dropped in and out of applications and communication tools are built into the UI.

Closely related objects are clustered together. As users rotate through the wheel (aka the dock) at the bottom of the page, the spacial view gives greater visual emphasis to clusters that are most closely related the object at the center of the wheel.

Aurora isn’t being productized – Adaptive Path is simply releasing the design and interface ideas into the wild as a “springboard” for an open discussion about how to evolve the user experience of the Web browser.

Jesse James Garrett, the cofounder of Adaptive Path and the person who coined the term “Ajax,” is the lead designer for Aurora.

via TechCrunch and Adaptive Path

– Concept videos: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4
– Design themes (the four major themes or high-priority elements of the browser)
– Inside the design process and concepts: design concepts | interface guide
– Open source design
– Web page design (designers involved)