Discovery in the Marketplace
Shopping for apps is a different experience for everyone. Sometimes it can be easy — you know what you want right then and there, a couple of clicks and you’re … Read more
Articles in “Mobile”
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
Highlights from Cyd Harrell talk at BayCHI
Cyd Harrell, formerly VP of Research for Bolt|Peters, gave a great talk on Fearless Mobile Research at January’s BayCHI monthly meeting. For those of us in the San Francisco Bay … Read more
UX Principles Behind Firefox for Windows 8 Preview
Two weeks ago, Firefox released a preview build for Windows 8! This is a version of Firefox that runs in both the “classic desktop” environment, and in the new “Windows 8 … 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
MozCamp Warsaw: Design Principles Behind Firefox OS UX
This is the presentation I gave at MozCamp Warsaw earlier this month. Many people have been asking for it, so it made sense to create a post about it, and … Read more
Findings from the Marketplace User Research
I posted last month about a user research study we conducted in Portland, Oregon to gather a qualitative understanding of users’ current behaviors and relationship to the App Store associated … Read more
Why UX Designers Love Mozilla
One day while grabbing coffee with Ian, an idea emerged to document our design process, and give video a try for richer blog posts. As the Mozilla UX team is … Read more
User study: How Do Users Use an Apps Marketplace
This week we’re going to conduct a small-scale user study with eight participants to understand how users interact with an apps marketplace. We’re conducting the study here in Portland, Oregon … Read more