Firefox OS UX Work Week: Taipei Photo Essay
About twice a year we try to get the entire team together with the intent to plan for the future as well as build closer relations. Mozilla is not comprised … Read more
Articles in “Boot to Gecko”
Poland & Hungary Series #2: The Phone is in My Life, not My Life is in the Phone
Co-written with Dominik Strohmeier This past spring, we interviewed 17 feature phone or newbie smart phone users in Poland and Hungary (prior to launch). Most of these users had been … Read more
Poland & Hungary Series #1: Understanding how people use their mobile phones
Co-written with Lindsay Kenzig, Mozilla User Researcher Two short years after proposing a first idea of a Firefox OS and much hard work, Mozilla launched the first Firefox OS phones … Read more
Things to know about Colombia: Internet and mobile market fact sheets
August 1st marks the launch date of Firefox OS devices in Colombia and Venezuela. The User Research team went to Colombia to meet some of our first users and learn … Read more
Taipei UX Meet Up In Pictures
At the beginning of July, I was fortunate enough to visit the Taipei Mozilla (Taiwan) office with a couple my design colleagues (Rob from Vancouver and Jinghua from the Bay … Read more
Case Study: The Edit Icon on Firefox OS
When Designer Experience is Trumped by In Market User Validation Testing. With our extremely short time frame on design for v.1.0, we had a good idea what metaphors needed to … Read more
Countdown to V.1.0: Berlin Work Week and Sound Design
In summary… The Firefox OS Work Week in Berlin was a success, the team managed to fix all of Mozilla’s blockers for a V.1.0 Gold Build Candidate. During the week, … Read more
Middle Class Money Strategies in Brazil
Written with Cori Schauer. Shortly after doing some secondary research and talking to people who had lived in Brazil, we realized that the way we, Americans, think about money and … Read more
Brazil Calling: Behind the scenes of research analysis
Written with Diane Loviglio The User Experience Research team traveled to Sao Paulo and Recife, Brazil to study how the middle class thinks about and uses phones so we could … Read more