Mobile/firefoxhome/08-29-2011
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Dial-in
- 650-903-0800 or 650-215-1282 x92 Conf# 265 (US/INTL)
- 1-800-707-2533 (pin 369) Conf# 265 (US)
- IRC channel #fxhome
- Room: MTV 3Z - Zombocom
- Vidyo: tbd
Agenda
- What is remaining for next milestone
- iOS App update
- Privacy policy
- User feedback
Engineering Update
Front end
Server
Add-on
iOS App
UX and User Research
Design
Research
QA
Security
Other
home meeting 08292011 Raw notes: - focus on what's next for milesstone - brownbag (pancake for san fran office) - all welcome to make your own pancakes - or go to san fran - main thing : inform on what we're working on in moco - part of it, how can I get involved : should have our story there - putting together a page to sign up in form ; collect uid - some more changes on server/client side - we might want to hold off until thursday or friday, maybe even monday before pushing it out - send a link to people - email etc. needed for demo - st3fan : email that he sent out earlier , earlier - status update email : - iOS app : coming together, minor tweaks to make it pretty - if there's time; pretty functional - pretty much ready for demo - backend stuff before we go live; data model changes - question about that offline - click back, tile on iOs web site -> update frequency - items will bubble up; push that to stating after this meeting - it's not perfect - good enough for demo - addon - addon history broken? briefly worked? not sure? - are we going to ask people to use the addon? - going to do that in part with the email that we're going to send out - one email to iOS users if you want addon - one email to addon users (web) - use cases are different [ - one email to rule them all ] - fabrice had no issues w/ the addons - merging compatibility pieces? - fabrice worked with SDK repro - version compatibility issue? - 1.0 sdk was run when having issues? - many pieces : better start sites - rank and sort sites - some web sites don't always work on mac roundtable: any issues on more people? - privacy piece: - want to add a few links to the sign up page - to the addon login page - to the site itself for the link to the privacy policy - figure out where the links should be - after playing around with it, will write a policy - any questions will go to Stuart - ian -> to link the privacy page - bottom right? - on ht epage before you sign in : the orange id button, privacy page - on the firefox addon: sign in browser id : using pancake has little surprise for privacy - remembers interactions - most of what people would be surprised would be browser side/addon due to history - more info : 3 paragraphs expanding : give copy later. - show more see more, so people can understand what it does without having to read the full privacy policy - addon more like a setup wizard? few screens and acknowledge the data) - don't know if we have any time to do something like that before release - love the idea for a wizard, for privacy, like the idea. - a lot in history, but still would like some idea of what amount of information we are getting - as we make changes and expose things, we may get a better idea - Security front : -> nothing changed - User Experience front - talk after this meeting - User Interface - nothing new to report - detail Ui stuff with St3fan - ian here until wed. pressing needs tomorrow preferably - social integration - sketching through ideas through different tasks, what that does to our model - Katie is poking through things and looking through what we can do there - QA - .2 tested - .3 seen over the weekend - .4 out/ testing - nothign majorly serious, been reporting bugs - Bug 682937 - Clearing the search field does not show the list of thumbnails again - Servers - pull more into our own infrastructure - follow architecture - anything on load balancer VM? - won't use that : build up a stack of machine and get that deployed ~~~~~~~~ Best practices: - write a script before sitting with someone - asking same thing to people so we have something to compare - record with flip camera - don't worry about taking notes - engage the tester, engaging is more important than note taking - don't lead : - questions that lead : did you, are you, would you? - what why who where, how - what's the last the last time they did... ? - grounds them if they do last time? - always ask why? - tell me more? - can you explain that more? - totally ok to act dumb - it's not about us, it's them what they normally would do next challenge: - how to find things that you wanted - don't need app to start those conversations - any questions : in interviews - write a script on the fly - what are some of the things you would ask about: (is it in the context of what we have in terms of pancake now?) - for the next 3 / 4 weeks, diane won't be here. - customer advisory board: - starting then: - what they're natural habits are: - work flow - have links and side groups together? - she wanted them grouped together - don't tell them what the app does, they come to conclusions of what it could do - made me think of the problems - don't know what it is that we're doing - how they would or wouldn't use it - PDF on wiki and recordings as well - Send script as well - more of the beginning stuff - who knows what's it going to be - do research on this - how do we find things on what people want? - nice script? 1. Did you find anything cool on the last week? How did you find it? - narrow it in more - did you find anything cool yesterday? Social stuff? - have you recommended things to friends, yesterday? - what did you recommend to a friend yesterday? - are these movies, are these books? articles? web content? 2. How would you improve the web browser/web browsing - too broad talking about web content": - go out of the web content first and then go in for content - what articles did you read this morning - where were you? park? train? desk? - what device were you using? - why on that device? - why did they read those? - would be interesting? leaving it vague so that they can answer-> on twitter? -> news from twitter? -> nypost? - what did they do this weekend? - recommending without sending a link? - try to think the way that they are thinking? -> possible answer -> called a friend to see a movie? - what's your vacation spot? - how they act ; grounding us to see what they are and what they do? - what sort of things they search for? - how they went about the process? - cool part is having an advisory board - understanding - sit and talk with them - need to come up with new questions - get to know the audience - prompts for questions - sites they visit most frequently - search for everythign - URL bar - be interested in asking questions : how do people manage their to do list - what they do in terms of organization of data - for this case, have their computer/laptop/ipad, and have them bring them, and do a "let me show you" - take a phone and take a picture - make a template keynote to throw this in - fill this out - how to process the raw data to send back to the team - how do you find things that you didn't know you wanted? - how did you find about facebook? - how did you find about *****? - web app projects - people don't necessarily remember them - funniest thing on the web? how did you find out about it? - twitter? facebook? - what was the last time - what's a blog that you read about everyday? - how did you find out about it? - what was the last restaurant you went to and why? - what was the last movie you saw and why? - lifestyle things versus entertainment versus work news, versus news - 30 minutes conversation; get data without too long/too short nor ackward - 3 ; ian and stefan is also doing this -> jason on offsite - practice with someone else; can ask notes -> portland ; over video type situation: record screencast? talk to crystal about that -> interviewing people : specific 6 aren't in portland - links to do so it makes it easier - sometimes they want to see your face; sometimes you want to see screen - record video sessions; record session - it license : screenflow and send it after - iPad screenshots, send it out - make some things work : even talking to them - voice is the most important part of this - 1 on 1 session - ask screen shots; try to get the voice. That's the most important part - this first time: iPad ? first time? - bring their iPad if they have one? - We should all have 1, if we don't they should - if they don't have 1, we should get it for them - scheduling and stuff : so everyone knows - coordinate amongst everyone so that we don't do more than 1 between each of us. - book one room on the 4th floor and have the time slots - in zimbra; mt view redswingline 2 to 4 - bring the device w/ you