Firefox UX Team update: Preparing for Work Week

What the Firefox UX team is up to this week

The Firefox UX team posts weekly updates on what we’re up to. Instead of only posting individual after-the-fact updates, we try to post more about what we’re about to do — which is usually a bit more interesting and higher-level, as well as gives you the chance to engage with us while we’re “in-process.” It will hopefully also give you a bit more insight into how we do our work. Our current focus areas can be found at UX priorities for the next Firefox release.

The UX meetings are open to people from outside Mozilla — if you want to listen in, use the numbers for our conference call system and join conference room number 268 every Monday at 13:30 PST. We post agendas to dev.planning and dev.usability before these meetings.

For people at Mozilla: We are scheduling regular work sessions at 13:00 PST on Wednesdays every week — as part of this we also accept drop-in visits if you want to get assistance with any user experience task. Contact us a bit in advance to coordinate.

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New & noteworthy

Alex Faaborg is giving a talk at ZURB interactive agency (open event) in San Jose this Friday at noon — sort of a lunch talk with questions about Firefox. More details on the ZURB site, with sign-up details if you want to attend.

Previous week

Highlights from the previous — short — week’s activities:

• Jennifer Boriss worked on some of the Extension Manager edge cases, and stepping back and updating the high-level mock-ups.
• Alex Faaborg worked on Weave stuff, we’re getting ready to land Weave on trunk — what needs to change immediately, what needs to change before we release it in a Firefox release.
• Stephen Horlander was recovering from being sick, and cleaned up resources and files and posted them in the UX SVN repository. First cut at the new buttons has landed in the nightly builds for Windows.
• Alexander Limi had a lot of small admin stuff to wrap up this weekend — interviewing UX candidates for Labs, some more updates to Resource Packages, and made some headway on the new Download Manager.

This week’s meeting

We mostly discussed our plans for the upcoming Mozilla Work Week, who should we schedule to meet with, what activities should we prioritize, etc.

Some priorities:

• Wrap up Firefox app menu contents & behavior/design, finalize URL behaviors.
• Meet with Markus to discuss the Mac theme.
• Get some straight answers from Linux people on theming capabilities.
• Possibly do a UX presentation on Firefox.next again.
• Revisit the UX index, update.

Individual goals & focus areas this week

Jennifer Boriss

Most Extension Manager stuff should be done by Friday, maybe schedule a work session to go over it this week.

Alex Faaborg

Stephen Horlander

Working on updating Linux/Mac mock-ups, and update the wiki, file more theme-related bugs.

Alexander Limi

Update the Firefox Projects list to be in sync with our projects, and wrap up some tasks from last week: publish a spec for an improved Download Manager, get Test Pilot menu item study results from Jono.

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Is there anything that you think can be improved in these updates? Send feedback to limi@mozilla.com.