Firefox home tab design by Yatrik Solanki

Yatrik Solanki better not be still in high school. His bio, here on the Mozilla Labs page, states that he is. Yatrick recently won the People’s Choice Award for the Mozilla Labs (makers of Firefox) design competition for his re-thinking of the “Home” tab.

If he’s truly still in high school, he’s a Bieber-esque talent in the UI/UX field and deserves to be mobbed by teenage girls. When I was finishing high-school, the only People’s Choice awards I was winning were for near-nude debating and under-age beer buying.

Mozilla Labs Design Challenge – Yatrik Solanki’s “Home Tab”

Yatrik’s also proposed a solution to “click blindness” – using cursor hover icons to demonstrate links that lead to a large file that essentially “freezes” your browser until it downloads or figures out what’s going on.