Extension Manager:UI Update questions
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- 1. What specific information do we show in the detail view of an add-on (for installed and available add-ons)?
- Both have
- Add-on Description
- Name of author with link to their AMO profile
- Add-on icon
- Add-on image
- Date updated
- Link to add-on homepage
- Link to AMO page (Mozilla Profile) in screenshots
- Both have
- Only installed have:
- User's rating
- Remove and Disable
- Contribute button
- Preferences
- Only installed have:
- Only not installed have:
- Community star rating and link to comments
- Install button
- Only not installed have:
- 2. What specific information do we show in the list view of an add-on (for installed and available add-ons)?
- Both have:
- Name of author with link to their AMO profile
- Add-on icon
- Date updated
- Abridged description
- Both have:
- Only installed have:
- User's rating
- Remove and Disable
- Contribute button
- Only installed have:
- Only not installed have:
- Community star rating and link to comments
- Install button
- Only not installed have:
- 3. Do we need a search tab?
- Only a "Search Results" tab, which appears when the search box on the right is used.
- 4. Do we need a search box?
- Yes. It is the only way to conduct a search and is present at all times.
- 5. How do we display add-ons that have just been installed (during this session and those that were installed last session but needed a restart)?
- Downloading add-ons display only in the categories that they will end up in. For the next three sessions, these add-ons show at the top of a category, and an icon marks that these add-ons are "new."
- 6. How do we notify users than an add-on has been updated?
- An icon shows that an add-on has been recently update.
- 7. How do we notify users that application Crabtree has installed an add-on into Firefox and what choices do we give them?
- The next time the user starts the browser, they see a notification telling them that Crabtree has installed an add-on. This notification provides a link both to remove the add-on and to view it. The way this notification displays will depend on how the notification redesign project goes. Currently such a notification would displays as a yellow bar that grows down out of the toolbar.
- (image here, yo)
- 8. How do we let users select different categories of add-ons?
- They click one (I may not be understanding the question, your honor)
- 9. How do we notify users that the new version of Firefox they have started has had to disable some of their add-ons?
- If the Firefox release is a major update, installed via wizard from Firefox, we do a diagnostic and warn them which add-ons will not be compatible. When the browser starts, we give a notification (see question 7 about unknown design) with the names of the add-ons and a link to the add-ons manager. The add-ons manager will display the now disabled add-ons with a notification on each that they were disabled because of compatibility.
- 10. How does the UI demonstrate that users can only choose to display a single theme at a time?
- I don't know yet. Design due 2/4/2010
- 11. How do Personas and Themes live together?
- I don't know yet. Design due 2/4/2010
- 12. How does installing an add-on from AMO work, for add-ons that need a restart and ones that don't?
- 13. How are multiple screenshots for a single add-on displayed in the extension manager?
- 14. How are multiple developers handled?
- Multiple developers for an add-on is relatively rare, since teams largest than one person usually list the name of a company or group. If there are multiple names, using the same default order as AMO is fine.
