http://www.intothefuzz.com Mozilla creative, branding and other random thoughts. Tue, 23 Dec 2008 21:16:36 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Just wanted to put up a short post giving some props to the new QMO site. I was only loosely involved - Jay Patel managed this one - but I really like how it retains some of the funky, handmade elements from mozilla.com while also creating its own look. The site ... http://www.intothefuzz.com/2008/12/18/new-qmo-site-looking-good/ The term 'community' gets thrown around a lot at Mozilla, and with good reason: the community really is Mozilla. Without it we never would have built a browser that went from zero to 20% worldwide marketshare in just four years, we never would have served up one billion add-on downloads ... http://www.intothefuzz.com/2008/12/17/calling-all-designers-doodlers-and-other-creative-types/ Interestingly, both Mozilla and Microsoft unveiled new t-shirt initiatives last week, and although there are obviously more important things about each company than the way they sell shirts, the differences between the two stores say a lot about the way we each do business. Microsoft's new Softwear line launched with a ... http://www.intothefuzz.com/2008/12/11/a-tale-of-two-t-shirt-stores/ There's some amazing stuff happening in our worldwide design community...like the ongoing Mozilla México logo contest, for example. Last summer, Ricardo Meza and his team of volunteers put out a call to local designers to see who could create the best logo for their corner of the Mozilla universe, and ... http://www.intothefuzz.com/2008/12/09/exercise-your-right-to-vote-2/ Today is the first day of the No Laundry in December crusade (details at Giant Spatula; more details at Chicks Who Click). It's not every day that you have the opportunity to get in on the ground floor of a genuine grassroots movement (especially if you've already shaved this month), ... http://www.intothefuzz.com/2008/12/08/nlid-join-the-movement/ If I know one thing about the Mozilla community it's that people love t-shirts. So, I'm very excited about today's launch of the Mozilla Community Store, which opens up our t-shirt creative process in some very cool ways. Tara Shahian has all the details over on MusingT, but the gist of ... http://www.intothefuzz.com/2008/12/04/the-mozilla-community-store-is-open/ A bunch of Mozillians are up in San Francisco today as part of our involvement with the SF Green Festival. It's certainly a new type of conference for us, but when you look at the core values of the various other affiliated organizations there are a lot of commonalities in ... http://www.intothefuzz.com/2008/11/14/mozilla-goes-green/ Yesterday we launched a new marketing challenge called Impact Mozilla...the idea being to open our process to the community and see who can come up with the best idea for increasing the Firefox user retention rate. Our crowdsourcing efforts in the past have always produced good results, so I'm really ... http://www.intothefuzz.com/2008/10/01/making-an-impact/ One of the ongoing challenges of my job here at Mozilla is trying to build up and engage our design community. After our t-shirt design contest earlier this year it's definitely growing, but I'd love to see it get bigger. Along those lines, an exciting recent development has been the work ... http://www.intothefuzz.com/2008/08/29/viva-mozilla-mexico/ Back from Whistler now, and after months of being focused on either the Firefox 3 launch or the Summit, it feels like things are very wide open and full of possibility. I'll be blogging about what's coming next from our creative/branding/look&feel perspective soon, but for now let me say a ... http://www.intothefuzz.com/2008/08/04/good-times-in-whistler/