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Redesigning as One Mozilla: Design Review #2

January 23, 2012

(Reposting from onemozilla.org, so planet.mozilla.org readers can follow along!)With thanks to your ongoing feedback, the One Mozilla website project continues with design review #2. What’s New? This review focuses on a refinement and tightening up the design with real content. You’ll notice that it looks a lot design review #1, and a large reason for that is that feedback on the direction has been overwhelmingly positive, and we’re making small iterations along the way. [1] The Details Top Level Navigation [...]

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Rolling Out & Testing a Content Rich Universal Tab

January 12, 2012

(Reposting from onemozilla.org, so planet.mozilla.org readers can follow along!)

With 200+ sites, 150 blogs and many other various web properties, the Mozilla universe is massive and can be difficult to navigate.

Roughly a year ago, a few Mozillians (David Boswell, Potch, Sean Martell and John Slater) got together to come up with a solution to unify all Mozilla properties: a universal tab that, when clicked, would expand to expose navigational links across all key sites.

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Seeing Differently: Working With Gaze Studies on mozilla.org/firefox

September 28, 2011

Gazehawk A few months ago we worked with a fantastic company, Gazehawk, on creating and implementing a self-contained user test with eye-tracking technology. Typically, a lot of hardware and expensive software and user recruitment are needed to run these studies. Gazehawk’s technology made it possible for us to do things quickly and cheaply and we got outstanding results. What is Eye-Tracking? Eye tracking is the process of measuring either the point of gaze (“where we are looking”) or the motion [...]

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Design Research: Quick n’ Dirty User Testing on /features

September 6, 2011

We’re looking at how we can improve the user experience on the Firefox features page. from left to right -> mostly above the fold & the entire page (aka full monty!) A quick IA inventory showed us that the page: presents 73 different units of information provides users with an at-a-glance hover experience called, “Top Features” provides users with a drill-down navigation experience led by icons at the top of the page provides users with a “back to top” navigation [...]

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Increasing Firefox Upgrades With Some Basic UX Magic & A/B Testing

August 16, 2011

(For background see Bug 662975 & Bug 669101) William Reynolds, User Engagement Associate @ Peace, Love & Firefox Event #SFPride Photo by Melissa Shapiro @shappy, Mozilla Firefox PR & so much more! Spin the Wheel! Sometimes user experience design is the result of taking chances and creating experiences that are unexpected, catching users’ attention and hopefully not causing an annoyance, what follows is one such instance! Looking for Low-Hanging Fruit My team and I do a lot of work on [...]

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