Websites/Mozilla.org/Roadmap 2011/Q2
Contents
Goals
(because goals are awesome! huzzah!)
- Communicate Brand Positioning
- Promote Developer Awesomeness
- Establish Accessibility Excellence
- Create Ideation Process
- Measure User Experience
- Measure Brand Awareness
- Develop an Outstanding Mobile Experience
- Adapt to Rapid Product Release Cycles
Rough list of Q2 goals (will finalize with Web Team feedback):
Communicate Brand Positioning
Engagement Owner(s): John, Chrissie
WebDev Partner(s): Fred, James
One Mozilla, Rebranding Project - Team Wiki
- Planning
- Phase 1: Rebrand Mozilla Europe
- Phase 2: Rebrand Mozilla Messaging
- Phase 3: Rebrand Mozilla.com
- Future Phase: Site Unification Project
- Future Phase: Site Unification Project
Firefox Download Page Optimization Improve conversion on Firefox landing page by 2% with detailed plan for ongoing A/B testing & measurement
User testing & design research Measure & establish baseline of brand awareness on Firefox (US) Product Site & develop a detailed plan for testing & measurement that includes:
- User testing/interview results from usertesting.com (as discussed with Blake this is more effective than running surveys given resources)
- Eye tracking research/testing (Brian Krausz of Gazehawk Eye Tracking]
- Implementing ongoing brand awareness survey on /fx (first run page) (Bug 660996 - delayed until Q3 due to Metrics resources)
Promote Developer Awesomeness
Engagement Owner(s): Laura
WebDev Partner(s): James, Raymond
- 3 mini HTML5 projects (404 error page, Snippets(Bug 666012), and Firefox-focused landing page*)
- Producing automated tests
- Finalize Raymond's tests & get them running on Hudson
- Git transition (James)
- Work with localizers to warn them of switch
- Work with IT on switching live site to git
- Use Git & GitHub (more on infrastructure)
- Dynamic content project(s) (James)
- Chrissie = owner
Establish Search Excellence & Standards Compliance
Engagement Owner(s): Chrissie & Laura
WebDev Partner(s): SilverOrange
Create XML sitemap for search engines & institute a regular & automated update schedule- Implement SEO/tag strategy, to incrase organic search traiffic by 5%, including:
- 404 page to assist with & improve lost lead user experiences
- Strategic title tags
- Strategic meta descriptions
- Wiki
Bugs:
- New 404 Page [Bug 640688& Bug 661546]
- Update moz.com "Mobile" pages:[ Bug 642432]
- Update H1, H2, H3 tags/copy: [Bug 663925]
- Update title tags and meta descriptions [Bug 657387]
Note: All of the above will be part of a checklist of excellence.
Measure User Experience
Engagement Owner(s): Chrissie & Laura
WebDev Partner(s): TBD
- Establish creative/ideation process that leads as a companion partner into webdev process (Chrissie)
- Conduct design & user research (eye tracking, user testing, brand awareness) for existing & new projects
- Conduct design & user research (eye tracking, user testing, brand awareness) for existing & new projects
- Centralize a web metrics dashboard for reporting on user engagement success (Bug 664294)
- Improve user (Mozilla team member) experience around understanding, interpreting, and accessing analytics (details)
- Improve user (Mozilla team member) experience around understanding, interpreting, and accessing analytics (details)
Develop Outstanding Mobile Experience
Engagement Owner(s): Chrissie, Laura
WebDev Partner(s): Jason Grlicky, James Long
Develop a concise mobile experience around content for the Firefox product site (mozilla.com)
- Conduct user & design research phase & produce discovery & recommendations brief (includes a survey & report of what mobile users are looking for when they come to the website - e.g. they may not be looking for a mobile download) [Bug 656453]
- Link to survey
- Link to survey results
- Conduct a content inventory/audit of all mobile content (what content exists that is only available for /m users - why do we have that content, can that content be replaced with a single content experience that works for desktop & mobile users, which would reduce overall content maintenance)
- Streamline entire content experience across Firefox product site (mozilla.com/org) to produce a single content experience that works for both desktop & mobile users (eliminating redundant, long-winded, vague, and puff copy). Create best-practices for content creation for Firefox product site that ensures prevailing copy creates an awesome experience for mobile users)
- Establish creative/ideation process as a companion into the new webdev process
- Link to creative process
- Increase conversion to download for mobile clients
- Support FX5 mobile release project(s) [Bug ]
- Make mobile more actionable[Bug 659451]
- Learn more about the Android app store experience/process & identify areas for improvement
Adapt to Rapid Product Release Cycles
Engagement Owner(s): Laura & Chrissie
WebDev Partner(s): James Long & Steven Garrity (silverorange)
- Successfully launch FX5 desktop & mobile on the website on time
- Successfully launch Rapid Release site changes on Mozilla.com. [Bugs]
Team Onsite (Results)
A 3-day working onsite in Mountain View to gather as a team and tackle projects and planning.
Notes on our sessions can be found here.