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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 [...]

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 [...]

Meet Test Pilot in Firefox 4 Beta

We are excited to announce that Test Pilot will closely support the soon to be released Firefox 4 beta, playing an important role in the development of the next generation of Firefox through a new Add-On called “Feedback.” With this bundled Add-On, beta testers will be asked to participate in user interface studies, and that [...]

The interactive heat map for Firefox Main Window usage!

Mozilla Metrics team has created a really awesome interactive heat map to visualize the data from the recent Test Pilot study of Firefox’s main window. The team also publish a great blog post sharing findings from this study. Check it out below! “Last month, Mike Beltzner shared an early product plan for the next version [...]

Get Test Pilot 1.0 Now!

It has been 10 short months since we released the first version of Test Pilot (the inaugural v0.1). Today we are excited to announce the final release of Test Pilot 1.0! Test Pilot 1.0 solves the compatibility issues with Firefox nightly builds and includes a number of bug fixes and improvements to the user interface [...]

What are the most popular Firefox menu items?

In February, the Test Pilot team at Mozilla Labs rolled out a test to explore usage of the Firefox menu bar . This menu item usage study aims to help guide the UX team as they create a fully optimized design by answering 3 questions. * Which menu items are the most commonly used? * [...]

Test Pilot 0.3 and a new study!

We are excited to give an update on the recent progress that we’ve made for the Test Pilot program. Since we announced the first study of Test Pilot, Tab Open/Close, about two months ago, we have received more than 7,000 data submissions from around the world, providing invaluable data into how you use tabs in [...]

The first Test Pilot data visualizations

Over the past weeks, we’ve been sifting and analyzing the data from the Test Pilot tabs study, and working with Blake Cutler from the Mozilla Metrics team to generate graphs of interesting statistics about tab usage. Today we put up an analysis page showcasing a few of these graphs. There are many more tab-related statistics [...]

Welcome to the new Test Pilot weblog!

With the launch of the new Mozilla Labs website, each Labs project now has its own custom, independent web presence and weblog. The site as a whole is built on a standard WordPress Multi-User install, with two custom themes designed by Sean Martell and built by Neil Lee and Ryan Doherty. These themes allow us [...]