Ideating without Borders at the Firefox UX Concept Week
Last week, the Firefox User Experience Team came together for a Concept Week to generate some big ideas for future Firefox features. Our user research team has conducted a number … Read more
Save For Later
Firefox and “save for later” All browsers support two functions: searching and revisiting. My research questions whether constructs like bookmarks really are the right model to support revisiting. I worked … Read more
Writing Surveys That Work
Rebecca Weiss, one of our metric team members and and a PhD candidate at Stanford, gave a fantastic talk about how to write surveys. Writing surveys seems simple because of … Read more
Phone Usage in Brazil
Written with Cori Schauer. This is the 4th post in our 5-part series on the field research in Brazil. Read the introductory post, the post about money strategies in Brazil … Read more
Where People Get Their Mobile Phones
Written with Diane Loviglio. Middle class Brazilians get their phones from multiple sources: Personal Networks Stores Black Market Surprisingly, stores were not the number one way these people got their … Read more
Coming soon: The Firefox Developer Toolbox
In his book “Weaving the Web“, Tim Berners-Lee said he first envisioned the web browser as an application that could both display and edit webpages. The “editing” part of the … 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
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
Identity and the Internet: A study
As Lindsay mentioned earlier , we met with 14 people this summer to learn how they experience and manage their lives both in the real world and online. We visited … Read more