----- Original Message ----- > From: "Johnathan Nightingale" <[email protected]> > To: "John Gruen" <[email protected]> > Cc: "Gavin Sharp" <[email protected]>, [email protected] > Sent: Wednesday, January 8, 2014 4:01:23 PM > Subject: Re: Walkthru of FxA/Sync Account Creation > > On Jan 8, 2014, at 3:59 PM, John Gruen wrote: > >> Why do they need to click the button to start syncing? This seems like a > >> strange hurdle that current-sync doesn't have. Is it related to > >> maintaining > >> a distinction between "Firefox account" and "sync"? > > > > The concept of the door hanger comes from user testing where ppl wanted > > data-type election prior to syncing. We give users the ability to > > customize off the doorhanger (by routing them to sync preferences) or to > > just start. > > If we sync immediately (one fewer click) but doorhanger the "Customize your > Data Options" invitation do we substantially accomplish the same goal > (while, presumably, increasing conversion)? >
The high level question is do we want to suck up all data without giving users choice over types? Do we want to hoover up passwords by default, for example? If so, we can do it automatically, if not, we can do the door hanger, or simply choose not to sync some data types by default. > J > > --- > Johnathan Nightingale > VP Firefox > @johnath > > _______________________________________________ Sync-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/sync-dev
