Firefox for Windows 10
With the release of Firefox 40, all users of Windows 10 are in for a treat. Over the past months, a small team at Mozilla has been working on optimizing … Read more
User Study of Tracking Protection in Firefox Nightly
Background A recently landed feature in the experimental Firefox Nightly build integrates proactive tracking protection for Firefox Nightly users coupled with Do Not Track (DNT). With tracking protection active, ads … Read more
Firefox OS TV User Interface & Animation Design
Introduction The approach to designing Firefox OS for Television is fundamentally different from phones or tablets. It requires rethinking of how experiences are structured and how to fulfill the needs … Read more
Firefox OS for TV UX Overview
Introduction The user experience of Firefox OS on the television platform comes from Mozilla’s vision of the Connected Home. This departure from our smart phone interface focuses on ease of … Read more
Task Continuity
Research and blog post by Gemma Petrie & Bill Selman For many consumers, software and hardware choices are increasingly becoming choices between incompatible brand ecosystems. In today’s marketplace, a consumer’s … Read more
Save, Share, Revisit
In early January, we conducted user research to refresh our understanding of how people save, share, and revisit content with the goal of building our knowledge base for a larger … Read more
Find it Faster: The New Search Interface in Firefox
How often have you done a web search, already knowing that you would click the first result that looked like a Wikipedia page? Quite often? Then Firefox is about to … Read more
Why Do We Conduct Qualitative User Research?
The following post is based on a talk I presented at MozFest about interviewing users. I recently had a conversation with a former colleague who now works for a major … Read more
Re-imagine Firefox on tablet
Nowadays mobile space is dominated by applications that are created for mobile phones. Designers often start designing an application for phones first and then scale it for tablets. However, people … Read more