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Crowdsourcing Project – Summary of Key Learnings
By Jan Dittrich, João Menezes, Ryan Bubinski, Zach Williams Key Learnings – Status Quo and Gaps Team 1 sent out a questionnaire form to all those who had participated in any Mozilla Labs Design Challenges. Thirty-seven past participants answered – thanks to all of them for supporting us! Many of the participants had either a [...]
Crowdsourcing Project – Summary of Crowdsourcing Literature
Reading Crowds This post summarizes research done by Piyush Kumar, Eugenia Ortiz, Chao Xu, Ajay Roopakalu, and Peter Organisciak. What do we know about crowdsourcing? Certainly, its historically roots of group collaboration dig deep, but what of its current form? It is only in recent decades, as communications technologies became more efficient at connecting large [...]
Crowdsourcing Project – Summary of Best Practices
A few weeks ago a group of 15 students from all around the world embarked on a mission to create a new program around Mozilla Labs’ Design Challenges. The group split up into three teams with each team focussing on one particular aspect of analysis: Past Design Challenges, best practices and existing research. The write-up [...]
Week 1 Status Update from the Crowdsourcing Project
About a week ago, 15 students from all around the world set out to work on Mozilla Labs’ Crowdsourcing Project – with the aim to create a next generation crowdsourcing platform. In the first phase of this project, the students broke into three teams, each with a specific objective. Here are their status reports after [...]
Contacts Design Challenge – Best in Class honors bestowed
In early June we launched a Design Challenge around Mozilla Labs’ explorations in the social space. Students and UX practitioners from all around the world participated and later the wider community came together to bestow the People’s Choice Award. Without much further ado – the Best in Class honors go to: Amine Zafri for Best [...]
The Crowdsourcing Project: Kick-Off
This is a guest post from Coleman Foley, one of the participants in Mozilla Labs’ Crowdsourcing Project: Today, volunteers from California to Sweden came together to discuss how to improve crowdsourcing, responding to a call from Mozilla Labs for volunteers to “Crowdsource Crowdsourcing“. We are practicing what we preach here. Pretty much everybody had a [...]
Vote for your favorite Concepts in the Contacts Design Challenge
This spring we invited the wider community to develop interesting use cases around Mozilla Labs’ explorations in the space of online identity, contacts and the relationship you have with other people. Now it is time for you to vote for the People’s Choice Award! The People’s Choice Award goes to the concept(s) which the wider [...]
Crowdsourcing Project – Deadline Extended
During the last couple of days we received a lot of feedback asking us to extend the deadline for the “Crowdsource Crowdsourcing” project (more information about the project here and here). We would like to give everyone the chance to apply, thus we decided to move the application deadline to Sunday, July 18th. And just [...]
Contacts Design Challenge – Submission Deadline extended
This is a quick service announcement: Due to feedback we received from the wider community, we extended the submission deadline for the Contacts Design Challenge to Monday July 12th. Learn more about the Design Challenge here, see current submissions here and submit your concept here.
Mozilla Labs “Crowdsource Crowdsourcing” Project
Mozilla Labs launches the “Crowdsource Crowdsourcing” project – giving students from around the world the opportunity to work with us on creating the next generation crowdsourcing platform.
