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Mozilla Open Data Competition – Deadline is This Friday!

Hi all – just one last reminder that the submission deadline for the first Mozilla Open Data Visualization Competition is this Friday (Dec. 17th). If you haven’t started working with the data, its not too late! You still have a few days to get started at the Official Competition Page, investigate the data, and submit [...]

Mozilla Open Data Competition – 10 Days Left!

[Note: cross-posted on Mozilla Metrics] Hello Data Hackers! We just wanted to remind everyone that the submission deadline for the first Mozilla Open Data Visualization Competition is just 10 days away! Submit your entries by December 17th for a chance at a $300 Amazon gift card and a set of all 4 Edward Tufte books! [...]

Engaging User Centered Design in the Open @ The University of Sydney

From September to November this year,students within the Interaction Design Studio at the University of Sydney enrolled in a User Centered Design project. The project centered around the broader theme of “Designing for Social” and asked students to create applications and products in this space. All student designs, ideas and research findings are fully documented [...]

Test Pilot Program Reaches One Million Active Users

It was just four months ago when we reported that 170,000 Firefox users joined Test Pilot, our open user research platform. Today, we are happy to announce that more than 1 million Firefox users are active Test Pilots, and the community continues to grow. The Test Pilot program launched in August 2009 as a Firefox [...]

Mozilla Open Data Visualization Competition – Data is Now Live!

[Note: cross-posted on the Mozilla Metrics Blog] Two weeks ago Mozilla Labs, together with Mozilla Metrics team and the growing Mozilla Research Initiative, announced our first Open Data Visualization Competition. Today, we are excited to release the data sets for this competition! These data sets come from Mozilla’s own open data program, Test Pilot. Test [...]

How People Use Firefox – Mozilla Open Data Visualization Competition

Are you an data visualization wizard? Mozilla Labs and the Mozilla Metrics Team, together with the growing Mozilla Research initiative, are hosting a Open Data Visualization Competition based on Test Pilot data. For this competition we’d like to explore creative visual answers to the question: “How do people use Firefox?” For example, visualizations that investigate [...]

A Week in the Life of a Browser – Refreshed

The Latest Study Today, we are excited to announce the imminent release of our next Test Pilot study, A Week in the Life of a Browser v2. This study is an update to the original Week in the Life of a Browser study, and adds some very important metrics, including memory usage over time and [...]

The About:Firefox Study

The Latest Study While previous Test Pilot studies (e.g. the Firefox Main Window, Menu Item Usage, and Tab Switch studies) have largely focused on user experience and usage data, the Test Pilot extension is flexible enough to capture a wide range of other data related to the Firefox browser. The ‘About:Firefox’ Study is a 1-day [...]

Search Interfaces – How can Firefox better help our users?

People look for information online through different websites or search engines on a day-to-day basis, and sometimes getting the exact information you want can be a little frustrating. Firefox makes search easier for people to access by offering a search box on the top right corner on the browser, and has for many years. Users [...]

Firefox 4 Beta Interface Study

The Latest Study Today, we are excited to announce our next Test Pilot study, the first as part of the larger Feedback initiative of the Firefox 4 Beta program. Look out for the Firefox 4 Beta Interface Study in the next few days and see below for more information, including ways you can get involved!