Earlier this year, Test Pilot ran a Menu Item Usage Study to better understand how users interact with the traditional menu bar as Firefox transitions to a more streamlined, single “application button.” We’ve already shared some analysis from this study: … Continue reading
Last July, we presented initial analysis from our first comprehensive user interface (UI) study through an interactive, web-based heatmap. Many findings aligned with our expectations, but there were a few surprises. For example, only 12% of users clicked on the … Continue reading
As an intern here at Mozilla, I’ve learned that one of the core goals of the organization is to help build a better Internet by creating great software like the Firefox browser. But like many other endeavors, one of the … Continue reading
Private Browsing was introduced in Firefox 3.5, giving users the option of browsing the web without keeping track of their history. A recent Test Pilot study recorded, among other things, the time users activated Private Browsing, and the time they … Continue reading
Last month, Mike Beltzner shared an early product plan for the next version of Firefox with the Mozilla community and presented our vision for Firefox 4. A big upgrade coming with Firefox 4 is the new theme project: creating a … Continue reading
Last post, we identified the most and least commonly used menu items. Today, we will answer another question: how many different menu items do people actually use? It’s a simple question, but one that could be critical to the proposal … Continue reading
Now that we’ve ironed out some data issues and cleaned the data sets, we can get back to our analysis. If you remember, we were trying to answer 3 questions as the UX team contemplates modifying the design of the … Continue reading
Over the last few weeks we have been exploring Firefox menu usage through data collected by the Test Pilot extension. During our analysis, we encountered some irregularities and have since discovered that parts of the data set were affected by … Continue reading
In the last post, we presented the most and least commonly used menu items. We noted that a problem with analyzing aggregated data is the potential for outliers to skew our results. Today, to identify these outliers, we will move … Continue reading
For the last few days the Test Pilot team at Mozilla Labs has been running a test to explore usage of the Firefox menu bar. Ever since Mosaic 1.0 web browsers have had a standard menu bar–one that has always … Continue reading
