{"id":1180,"date":"2009-09-21T16:04:58","date_gmt":"2009-09-21T23:04:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/metrics\/?p=1180"},"modified":"2019-09-18T12:05:39","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T19:05:39","slug":"usability-research-spectator-and-test-pilot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/metrics\/2009\/09\/21\/usability-research-spectator-and-test-pilot\/","title":{"rendered":"Usability Research – Spectator and Test Pilot"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last year, the metrics team launched<\/a> Spectator<\/a>, a Firefox extension that collects data about how Firefox is used (thanks Polvi!).\u00a0 Spectator was an early iteration of a broader platform recently launched by Mozilla Labs \u2013 Test Pilot<\/a>.\u00a0 Test Pilot is designed to enable UX\u00a0 and product folks to test very specific hypotheses and questions \u2013 all of which are aimed at improving user experience and building a better browser.<\/p>\n

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You may have noticed that Mozilla Labs implemented its very first experiment<\/a> for Test Pilot earlier this month.\u00a0 The goal is to answer the following two questions<\/a> (or at least put some quantitative framework around the questions):<\/p>\n

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  1. What would be the best default tab behavior after users close a tab?<\/li>\n
  2. What should be default placement when users open a new tab?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    As someone who downloaded Test Pilot and participated in this study, I was impressed by a couple things.\u00a0 First, the introductory page did a nice job of summarizing what was going on (first image below).\u00a0 And second, at any time I could view what data was being collected about me (latter image).\u00a0 At the end of the experiment, it was then my decision whether or not to submit my data.<\/p>\n

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    Moving forward, the metrics team looks forward to partnering the Test Pilot team in making an impact with the resulting data.\u00a0 Stay tuned!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Last year, the metrics team launched Spectator, a Firefox extension that collects data about how Firefox is used (thanks Polvi!).\u00a0 Spectator was an early iteration of a broader platform recently launched by Mozilla Labs \u2013 Test Pilot.\u00a0 Test Pilot is … Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[100,103],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/metrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1180"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/metrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/metrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/metrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/metrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/metrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1180\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/metrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/metrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/metrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}