As Crystal said earlier, let's take a quick time out :) UX is working up some designs that compare one option (per device sync prefs) to the other (one pref to rule them all).
When they are ready I'll post them to this discussion and then at least we can all point at the same thing and talk about it, and hopefully better understand what we're agreeing or not agreeing on, and whether or not the differences in the user's experience from one to the other are worth the engineering tradeoffs associated with them. I can drive the UX stuff for this discussion. Sit tight. IAn On 2013-08-27, at 5:42 PM, Mark Finkle <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 2:08 PM, Mark Finkle <[email protected]> wrote: > > The point is: will an every growing list of checkboxes, tucked away in some > 3rd tier UI be the best we can do? Shouldn't we be more 1st tier? Can't we > use a better metaphor than a checkbox? > > I think these services are certainly more important than a simple checkbox > could convey. > > I'm certainly in favor of promoting the sync service in a smart way once we > have a stable mvp delivered. Thoughts that have already been thrown around > are things like putting a promo in the bookmarks menu and a popdown after a > person adds a new bookmark that says something to the effect of "Set up Sync > to back up your 4,091 bookmarks" or similarly for passwords a popdown "Set up > Sync to share saved passwords with Firefox on your Android phone." > > Is that the sort of thing you're after? Clear entry points with a > well-defined value prop, then roll them into the fuller experience. > Exactly the kind of thinking I'm looking for. I have started to think about > these data types (passwords, history, bookmarks, etc) as individual services. > Any given human will be putting different value on a particular data type. If > we raise them from simple data types and think about them as first-class > services, I think it allows us to better serve those users. For example, > we'll start finding ways to promote the "Password service" and not think > about how to display the "Password checkbox". >
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