Firefox’s design hot-shot Aza Raskin is back with some more interesting Firefox prototyping, this time in the form of a fresh idea for the new tab page. The page borrows some thoughts from Google Chrome and now Safari’s default new tab pages (i.e., displays thumbs of pages you like to visit and offers a search box), but puts a slightly different spin on it. Most notably, for sites like Lifehacker, the new page appears to tap the site’s RSS feed to display the most recent posts. We’ve been playing around with it a little bit this afternoon, and though we’re excited to see where it’ll go, so far it’s pretty rough around the edges—both in form and function. If you’d like to try it out or you want to know more about what the designers were thinking, hit the link. [New Tab Page: Proposed design principles and prototype]
Google’s offering 5 new themes for the iGoogle home page, including this stunning solar system theme (which update with a new photo each day). If you’d like to have a look at the new themes (or see the directions on how to download them, since they don’t appear in the theme menu yet) visit the Google Operating System blog:
Five New iGoogle Themes [Google Operating System]
