UX Book Club SF: Designing for Emotion
Emotional design isn’t just about copy, photos, or design style: it’s a different way to think about how to communicate. -Aarron Walters, Designing for Emotion Last Tuesday twenty-five people braved … Read more
Colombia Firefox OS Field Tests: Intuitive Integration
In my previous blog posts, I shared our Colombian Firefox OS study design and outlined the Firefox OS user journey and its first two stages, Meeting Expectations and Exploration. As … Read more
Colombia Firefox OS Field Tests: Exploring The Smartphone
In my previous blog posts, I shared our Colombian Firefox OS study design and outlined the Firefox OS user journey and its first stage, Meeting Expectations. As a refresher, take … Read more
Australis is landing in Firefox Nightly
A very exciting set of changes is landing in Firefox Nightly. We’ve been calling the project Australis, but, simply, it’s the next iteration of the Firefox user interface. It’s not … Read more
A Browser for Teens by Teens
Last summer, UX-ers Lindsay, Cori, and I had the opportunity to co-design a browser for teenagers with twins Grace and Aliyah, and their dad, Jay. The girls were interested in … Read more
Sticky: an open source Firefox OS sticker app
Here’s a new Firefox OS app called Sticky. You can take a photo of someone’s face, then select a sticker, and place it on top of the face. You can … Read more
The All-new Home on Firefox for Android Beta
To date, Firefox for Android has provided a number of convenient ways to quickly start browsing the web. Firefox Home offers “top sites” thumbnails that make for a great visual … Read more
Mozilla Summit 2013: Designing for our users, not for ourselves
Co-written with Gemma Petrie, User Experience Researcher Build. Empower. Teach. Shape. When Mitchell Baker defined the Nature of Mozilla in her keynote at this year’s Mozilla Summit, she highlighted these … Read more
Drawl: A simple Firefox OS drawing app
Drawl is a simple drawing application for your Firefox OS phone. Users can use different brush styles, sizes and colors to draw on the canvas. They can then save the … Read more