Here is the video of our Design Lunch session from last week, in which we discussed ideas for identity management in the browser.
The video is almost an hour long, so I don’t know if you have the patience to watch the whole thing… but it does open with me wearing a funny hat and narrating an imaginary legal drama. Then it proceeds to the showing off of screen mockups, followed by vigorous discussion of what the right thing is for Firefox to do in various tricky situations.
This is the first time I tried recording a design lunch using fancy cinematography techniques such as “pointing the camera at the person who’s talking”. I hope it makes it easier to follow.
You may also want to check out Aza’s blog post, which shows the mockups of potential interface designs. They should be easier to read there than they are in the video. You can also find out more at the Mozilla wiki page on the Identity project.
December 9, 2009 at 11:07 pm
I don’t have Flash, can you please provide some way for us to download the video, thanks.
December 10, 2009 at 3:41 am
@Kroc: You can download the file if you log in to Vimeo, which is probably why Jono thought everyone could download it. I’m not sure what the license is for this video, but I’ve put up a mirror if you don’t feel like signing up for Vimeo: http://drop.io/hidden/oyoyld5o6xkjlu/asset/bW96aWxsYS1kZXNpZ24tbHVuY2gtaWRlbnRpdHktaW4tdGhlLWJyb3dzZXI%253D
December 10, 2009 at 4:27 am
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December 10, 2009 at 7:50 am
Thank you Sir. I’ve had quite enough of signing up to websites. The experience with the last one (UStream) was so bad, I’m actively avoiding the need. Have you seen how insanely difficult, convoluted, and time consuming it is to register and log in with OpenID at UStream? Borders or abuse.
That is what you have to fight against with your identity work, companies who get no financial or commercial value out of allowing OpenID.
December 10, 2009 at 7:53 pm
I’m looking for an appropriate server to host the raw .ogg files for this and other Design Lunch sessions. They’re rather large files. I’ll put up another blog post with the links once I find a place to put them.
December 10, 2009 at 8:56 pm
Perhaps you could approach Mozilla to provide a video server for the use of Mozilla’s bloggers so that they can start using HTML5 video. Frankly I’ve been ever so disappointed that since the release of Firefox 3.5 so very, very few Mozilla bloggers have bothered to use HTML5 video. It defeats the point of shipping the technology if even Mozilla—the very people who should know better—aren’t putting it to good use.
I don’t have Flash, and I don’t particularly find it humourous that Mozilla are talking about the open web by using Flash. I’ve developed Video for Everybody http://camendesign.com/video_for_everybody to make supporting everybody, legacy browsers included, easy.
December 11, 2009 at 2:38 am
Talk with IT to get it onto http://videos.mozilla.org/
December 14, 2009 at 11:03 pm
[…] And the problem’s getting worse, because these days almost every new site you come across thinks it’s important enough to ask you to create a password. Meanwhile, phishing attempts are getting more sophisticated. These are some of the reasons Mozilla is starting to explore identity management in the browser. […]