Blueprint for a Browser: Designing Your Chrome Extension Idea

Think about the last time you used a web browser and something frustrated you. Maybe adverts kept interrupting a video. Maybe you had to copy the same piece of text over and over. Maybe a website's colour scheme gave you a headache. Those small irritations are exactly where great software ideas are born. Chrome extensions are tiny programs that sit inside the Chrome browser and fix — or improve — one specific thing about how you use the web. Some of the most popular ones in the world started as a single person thinking: 'I wish the browser could just do this for me.' Before you read on, pause and write down one thing that annoys you, slows you down, or wastes your time when you use a browser.