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- 1. MozCamp, Buenos Aires Saturday, April 21, 2012 Designing Firefox
- 2. ¡Hola!
- 3. Correction: The user experience workshop tomorrow is at 11:30am in Storni - not at 5:15pm!
- 4. My Name is Boriss I’m on the Mozilla User Experience Team
- 5. I’m going to talk about: • What user experience is • Design and user experience at Mozilla (including what we’ve gotten wrong) • The glorious future
- 6. Our focus is on how Mozilla’s products and services are perceived, learned, and used
- 7. Fixing current problems Designing new products and features User experience
- 8. • Design limited: based on annoyances, not possibilities • “Averaging” user needs If only current UX problems are considered:
- 9. “What’s your favorite color?”
- 11. Our goal is designing based on user needs • What are users trying to accomplish? • What are their metrics of success? • Who are they?
- 12. Many ways of determining user needs • User testing and interviews • Data analysis (eg Mozilla Test Pilot & Telemetry) • Focus groups • Contextual inquiry • Eye-Tracking studies/observational studies • Analyzing feedback
- 13. User experience design at Mozilla began after Firefox
- 14. First “user experience” at Mozilla = hackers creating a browser for, well, them (and this is awesome)
- 15. “Scratching an itch”is important for Mozilla, open source, hacking culture
- 16. But, we used to look like this:
- 17. ewdwe Now, we look more like this: (~30,000 million of us)
- 18. We can’t design for millions the same way we did for only ourselves
- 19. Partially, the UX team’s goal is to make sure that UX at Mozilla: 1. Is coordinated, cohesive, directed 2. Still happens true to Mozilla’s organic, open, itch-scratching character
- 20. Two approaches to UX design:
- 21. User Centric Design I need... I want... I like A more than B! the customer is always right!
- 22. Strong Designer I know what you want more than you do!
- 23. Most design teams land somewhere between Risks: EPIC FAILURE Risks: Complexity, “grey,” users lie
- 24. Historically:
- 25. Users lie!
- 26. Users lie!
- 28. So, we’re open source. We like scratching our itches. But we also need coherent design for our millions of users.
- 29. “I love tabs!” “Everyone uses tags, not bookmarks.” “My mom doesn’t understand tabs.” “OpenID is the future!” “Nobody uses the ‘Go’ button.” “There should be a preference setting.” “Add support for BitTorrent.” ! “I only use keyboard shortcuts.” “Add support for Ogg Vorbis.” “That’s great!” “That’s awful” “The profile manager should be redesigned.” “Closebuttons are better at the end of the tabstrip.” “The URL bar should be removed.” “This looks too much like Chrome!”
- 30. • Have add-on infrastructure to explore new ideas • Elevate contributors who know what they’re doing • Focus on design principles Wat do?
- 34. Beyond being well-designed, what should using Firefox feel like?
- 40. Who are we designing for (if not just ourselves)?
- 41. Our users: People whose lives or work revolve around the internet
- 42. Respecting Flow
- 44. Thursday, October 20, 11
- 45. Protect, but Don’t Lecture
- 46. Protect, but don’t lecture • You can’t “teach people how security works” • Maintain blacklists for add-ons & plug-ins • Don’t ask people to do work
- 47. Be a good fit - visually and interactively - across devices (we don’t do this well right now)
- 48. Listen to Users!
- 49. Measure in the Field
- 50. Do What’s Right for Users No Matter Where Idea Came From
- 52. Questions?