Identity/Department Status/2013-07-19
This is the first department status report from the Identity team. You can expect an update on a regular 2 week cadence.
Our goal is to keep you informed and to get you excited about the work we are doing supporting Firefox products across the board.
- Identity Department Focus
The team is currently focused on three key objectives:
- Fixing Sync - We must fix stability and usability issues in the present sync service
- One way to log into firefox - A single email / password and experience for Mobile, Desktop, and Web products (like Marketplace)
- Persona Adoption - We must increase the number of websites using Persona in Q3
For more information related to all Identity projects, please visit the Identity wiki.
- Signin to the Web (Persona)
Project Overview:
- Persona is designed to eliminate website passwords and empower users to choose their own identity online.
- It's long term goal is to become a standardized and browser-native means of decentralized authentication on the Internet.
Current Focus:
- Improve website adoption.
- Mozilla Identity Provider ("MozIdP"). Live Wednesday, 17 Aug.
- All mozilla.com and mozillafoundation.org email addresses now have native support for Persona. Effectively, every Persona-based website, even external ones, now support MoCo/MoFo LDAP auth.
- Branding Tweaks. Live Thursday, 18 Aug.
- In response to user feedback, we've restyled the Persona popup to better emphasize the website that users are logging into. More info: http://identity.mozilla.com/post/55796551587
- PiCL (Profile in the CLoud)
Project Overview:
- PiCL is a project whose short term goal is to fix firefox sync.
- The long term goal to give users easy access to their Firefox data from any device.
- PiCL is going to take the interesting data in your Firefox Profile and move it to the cloud - make it possible to access and manage this data from web apps, mobile apps, and all of our products
Current Activities: The User Experience (UX) work currently in progress includes: sign in, sign up, sign out, preferences, reset password screens. In-person usability testing took place this past week (July 15th - 19th). Results of the study will be communicated in the next status report.
Interested in learning more about PiCL? Check out the following:
- Persona Anyalytics
Project Overview: Measuring Persona: User adoption, website adoption, error discovery, etc.
Current Activities:
- Improving our data and visualizations for the new user funnel through the sign-in dialog
- Investigating A/B testing options for the sign-in dialog
For more information about our metrics effort, visit our Persona Analytics page and KPI Dashboard [LDAP required].
- Identity Key Points of Contact
- Lloyd Hilaiel, Director Engineering
- Dan Callahad, Signin to the Web
- Chris Karloff, Profile in the CLoud (PiCL)
- Jed Parsons, Native B2G & FXOS
- Katie Parlante, KPI & Metrics
- Crystal Beasley, UX
- Tauni Oxborrow, Program Manager
Other Identity project updates will be forthcoming in our next status report.
Don't hesitate to contact me or anyone on the team with any questions.
