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|Feature overview=One of our User-Experience goals for mobile Firefox is to decrease the user's time-to-task. One of the things that currently makes mobile native apps compelling, compared to website/app use in a browser, is that, when you decide you want to use a particular app, your workflow to get started is the following: | |Feature overview=One of our User-Experience goals for mobile Firefox is to decrease the user's time-to-task. One of the things that currently makes mobile native apps compelling, compared to website/app use in a browser, is that, when you decide you want to use a particular app, your workflow to get started is the following: | ||
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# tap on the icon for the browser | # tap on the icon for the browser | ||
# find the site you want, which can take one of these forms: | |||
## bookmark taskflow | ## bookmark taskflow | ||
### open bookmarks list | ### open bookmarks list | ||
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# User wants to find the phone number for the restaurant he's going to. He unlocks his phone and sees the Firefox widget. He starts typing the name of the restaurant and the site bubbles up because he's been there before. He taps on it, and the site comes up in the Firefox. | # User wants to find the phone number for the restaurant he's going to. He unlocks his phone and sees the Firefox widget. He starts typing the name of the restaurant and the site bubbles up because he's been there before. He taps on it, and the site comes up in the Firefox. | ||
# A user wants to check her todo list, which she managed in Remember The Milk. She unlocks her phone. Because RTM is an apptab in Firefox on her laptop, an RTM icon is listed in the Firefox widget on the homescreen. She taps on it, and it opens in Firefox. A RTM tab was already open in Firefox, so she is taken to it rather than it opening in a new tab. | # A user wants to check her todo list, which she managed in Remember The Milk. She unlocks her phone. Because RTM is an apptab in Firefox on her laptop, an RTM icon is listed in the Firefox widget on the homescreen. She taps on it, and it opens in Firefox. A RTM tab was already open in Firefox, so she is taken to it rather than it opening in a new tab. | ||
|Feature ux design=There are a couple of patterns for the design of Android widgets in Froyo and Gingerbread, though also a lot of custom designs; in Honeycomb, there are more forms that are more standard. One issue to resolve is how the tablet version of this differs from the phone version. There is more value more quickly to the phone version, I think, in that users seem more likely to pass through the home screen before each new task (i.e. app switching is less well known). | |||
=== Phone Design=== | |||
The following are two variants of the simplest possible Firefox widget, depending on whether we could tie in voice control. | |||
[http://www.flickr.com/photos/madhava_work/6196406060/ http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6178/6196406060_12cb5632a0_o.jpg] | |||
A further possibility is that the widget could be host to icons for sites that the user has designated as apps in Firefox on the phone and/or on other machines (they'd show up here via sync, in that case). This set could also include icons for installed web apps, if we don't want to put those directly on the desktop. | |||
[http://www.flickr.com/photos/madhava_work/6195895695/ http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6013/6195895695_afb0e47959_o.jpg] | |||
The following in the task flow for using the minimal version of the widget. In all cases, including the variant with app icons, tapping on a link to the web will bring up the tapped site in Firefox. | |||
[mockup goes on for a bit horizontally >> ] | |||
[http://www.flickr.com/photos/madhava_work/6196409282/ http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6155/6196409282_90640ae20d_b.jpg] | |||
=== tablet variant === | |||
* TDB! | |||
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