Mobile/User Experience

What is this?

This page is a starting point/index for User Experience work going on the mobile projects -- Fennec (mobile Firefox) and Firefox Home.

More background to come, soon.

Mobile UX Team

• Ian Barlow (bugzilla: ibarlow | irc: ianbarlow)
• Brian Dils (bugzilla: bdils | irc: briandils)
• Madhava Enros (bugzilla: :madhava | irc: madhava)

• Mobile/User_Experience/Meeting_Notes

Firefox for mobile devices (Fennec)

• Firefox for mobile 2011 Roadmap: Fennec/Roadmap

• Fennec Features list: Fennec/Features
• Firefox/Fennec Release Tracking: Firefox/Flight_Tracking
• fennec uiwanted bugs
• fennec polish bugs

Active Projects

Project	References/Work-in-progress	Owner
Touch Events		madhava
Gestures		briandils
Interim tablet improvements	Fennec/Features/TabletUI/UI_Improvements_ForHoneycomb	briandils
First run: Language Choice		briandils
First run: UI Discoverability		briandils
Redesigned Awesomescreen (phone and tablet)		madhava/ianbarlow
Better Android integration of form assistant		madhava
Android native polish		madhava
Android-style body text copy/paste		madhava
Visual refresh (Gingerbread/Honeycomb)		ianbarlow
Rewrite/mobilize UI text		madhava
UI Transitions/animations		?
Camera UI		ianbarlow
Integrate Personas		madhava
Safebrowsing UI (anti-malware/phishing)	* bug 651860	madhava
Accessibility improvements		briandils

Future Projects

• Ice Cream Sandwich compatbility
• Site permissions UI (this is proposed for desktop: Privacy/Features/Site-based_data_management_UI)

• old list: Mobile/UI/Designs/TouchScreen/Fennec_1.1+

Firefox Home

• Firefox Home 2011 Roadmap: Home/Roadmap

Active Design Projects

Project	References/Work-in-progress	Owner
User Experience and Visual Design	(this is a big one - need breaking down)	madhava

to be created:

• layout for basic frecency-derived list/grid
  • hi-res artwork (icons, thumbnails, and/or image snippets)
  • access to just bookmarks, history, remote tabs
  • badging
  • inline content
  • access to webapps
  • how do snippets appear
  • things shared with the user
• smarter algorithm for frecency list
• sharing from the app
• personas support
• native wrapper (iOS)
  • UX of native wrapper (iOS) (splashscreen, desktop icon, badging?)
  • multiple tabs/documents in native wrapper (iOS)
• account creation UX
• login/logout process
• settings? needed?

Other Design

• jgrlicky in webdev is designing a mobilized Personas section for MAMO
  • bug 636483
  • bug 636485
  • bug 636484

• jgrlicky (again) working on a add-ons discovery pane for the browser
  • bug 653190 - Design a mobile disco pane

Research

• List of possible research topics Mobile/User_Experience/Research

Resources

• Android UI Guidelines
• Mutual Mobile's Android Design Guidelines
  • v1.1 - now with Honeycomb
• ZURB Honeycomb Omnigraffle stencils
• GestureWorks' open-source gesture library
• Interactions and Usability with Windows Phone

Older Content

• What was here before April 2011 Mobile/User_Experience/Older