Combined with the streaming UI, statistical data gathering would allow us to quickly and cheaply test changes on large samples, Understand feature usage, errors, and stickiness of users. This data would significantly change the course of innumerable future development decisions doing it now would save a massive amount of effort.
For example, everyone seems to think the contextual menu is the best way to get "normal" people using Ub, but only one of the test subjects knew of it's existence, and even then it was a last resort for him to use it. I would bet money that it's usage rates would be near zero. Or am I wrong, and should we, as Jono proposes, "[Take] the Ubiquity context menu from tech-demo quality to production quality. For the majority users who didn't grow up on command lines, the context menu is likely to be the more widely used interface, but development on it has lagged far behind..." then going on to suggest a list of features to be added on. https://wiki.mozilla.org/Labs/Ubiquit/Usability/Statistical#Proposals_for_statistical_data_gathering Humbly, -Zach : ) On Nov 3, 6:49 am, Aza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It's time to buckle down and figure out the quarter four goals (i.e., by the > end of 2008) for Ubiquity. That's two months. Figuring these out is a > community process, so what I'll do here is lay out a general outline as a > framework for talking about specifics. > > *Major Goals for Ubiquity 0.2* > > * Streamable UI > - At least one new and experimental UI > * Streamable Skins > - Including a revised default Ubiquity skin, revisiting some of the > original design decisions > * UI Improvements > - A better context menu > - Experimental integration with the Awesome Bar > * Better command scaling and removal of hyphens in command names > - Using "container" verbs (http://labs.toolness.com/trac/ticket/134) > * A revised and updated API for Ubiquity commands > - A more finalized version of the "all-in-one" command plus templates, > - A unified method of adding and interacting with nouns, commands, and data > detectors. > > *Ancillary Goals:* > > * A version of the Herd with a well-documented public API > * A home site for Ubiquity with a Ubiquity "planet" > * Both Herd, and Ubiquity homepage to be hosted at ubiquity.mozilla.com > > Over the course of the next couple of days, let's try to come to a rough > consensus over what needs to be added to the goals, what needs to be > removed, and what's doable. I'll try to sum our decisions up in a blog post > in around a weeks time. We'll then turn the large goals into smaller > milestones and tickets > > -- aza | ɐzɐ -- --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ubiquity-firefox" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/ubiquity-firefox?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
