Gaia/UxContributing

The UX Team for Firefox OS appreciates contributions from interaction and visual designers, usability practitioners and engineers. This page contains ideas for contributions, links to helpful resources, and step-by-step instructions on how to share your contribution.

UX Areas for Contribution

This section describes important areas for improvement that would greatly improve the product right now. Please feel free to contribute in areas beyond these.

• Usability Reviews of Apps
  • Goal: To find specific problems ailing a specific Firefox OS app (such as email, calendar, settings and so on) or part of the OS (such as keyboard or notifications) and recommend specific improvements.
  • A usability review (AKA heuristic analysis) is an evaluation of a user interface against established usability best practices and heuristics by a trained usability professional.
• UX Most Wanted Bugs
  • In Bugzilla, a search for "ux-most-wanted" pulls up a list of bugs that could benefit from usability suggestions and improvements.
  • Even if you are not an engineer, the UX Most Wanted list is a handy starting place for a usability review wish list or generally up-to-date pointer to areas in need of attention.
• Wallpapers
  • Goal: We're looking for illustrative images for our backgrounds that reflect Mozilla's brand.
• Contact form redesign
  • Goal: Usability issues- propose an updated contact form based on our patterns
• Sounds
  • Goal: The UX team commonly get requests for new sounds. We'd love to "hear" what the community has to pitch in
• Usability reviews/ heuristics for apps
  • Goal: We prize and value the usability of our apps. Please pick an app and review it- we'll gladly file the bugs for these issues to follow up on.

Process

When your contribution is ready, please submit it via Bugzilla following the steps below.

• First, create a new bug in Bugzilla. Choose New > Firefox OS.
  • You must create a Bugzilla account in order to do this.
• Then, complete the following fields in the new bug (ignore the rest). A bug will not make it into our queue if these fields are not completed:
  • Summary: Describe your submission (for example, "Usability Review of Email App").
  • Description: Write a description of your proposal and your rationale.
  • Attachment: Attach any specs or related documentation you may have prepared, such as a ZIP file, PDF or PNG screenshots. referably using the keynotopia stencil we link to below using keynote
  • Product: Firefox OS
  • Component: Gaia or, if you evaluated a specific aspect of Firefox OS, like the Email app, choose "Gaia::Email".
  • Flags: Set a needinfo? flag to "firefoxos-ux-bugzilla@mozilla.com".
• Click the "Submit Bug" button.
• The UX team reviews contribution bugs once per month and will provide feedback in the bug.

UX Template

• link to keynotopia stencil
• link to building blocks
• link to visual style guide