Taskfox. About Taskfox Introduction Taskfox is a project to uplift some of the things that were learnt from the Ubiquity project into a future version of Firefox. Its aim is to allow users to quickly access information and perform tasks that would normally take several steps to complete. While the two projects share some common ideas and use cases, the goals are not all the same. Unlike Ubiquity, Taskfox is not a platform, is not intended to bring the user and the web together via language, and will not feature natural language processing. Also unlike Ubiquity, Taskfox will be part of the existing Firefox user interface, and will be localized to all locales that Firefox ships with. Note: Taskfox is just a codename. Goals and non-goals See the goals and non-goals page. Use Cases See the use cases page. Status & Roadmap See the project status page and roadmap.
Background Ubiquity Over 200 thousand people are using Ubiquity daily, with hundreds of command authors, and thousands of commands in the wild. Code. Labs/Ubiquity/Usability/Usability Testing/Fall 08 1.2 Tests - Mo. Kris graciously made this Ubiquity command that allows you to select any time code and jump to that point in time. Objectives Begin probing how to make Ubiquity accessible and useful in the context of including Ubiquity with the mainline Firefox distribution. As this is an early alpha I will be focusing on the core Ubiquity interface, while logging bugs on separate commands. Methodology See main article Methodology This largely is an exploratory, qualitative test exploring what users do when presented with Ubiquity for the first time.
It is based on the interview format where the participants lead which tasks they perform next. Analyzing Data These tables are being pushed out before I have had a chance to have someone verify them and link them to the Trac DB. Commands commandname- number of unsuccessful attempts total commandname+ number of successful testers total If a command was executed subsequent successful attempts don't tell us anything. Synonyms & new command suggestions Tester 08.
Ubiquity & Firefox - Introducing Taskfox « Blair’s Brain. Ubiquity has been an amazingly successful project, and it continues to grow and evolve. There's a huge active community of users, command authors, and core developers. Over 200,000 people are using Ubiquity every day, with hundreds of command authors, and thousands of commands in the wild.
New Ubiquity commands have been written and shared by the community, extension authors, and developers of websites and web services. The user tutorial is available in 10 languages, thanks to community contributions. At the same time, it's clear that Ubiquity is not for everyone. Are willing (and brave enough) to experiment with alternative, natural language keyboard style interfaces use web applications extensively for email, calendaring, document editing, online collaboration and most of their day to day tasks understand that the web is a collection of data which can be remixed, mashed together, and edited by users as well as by web developers know at least some basic English Accomplishing tasks Progress. ShiftSpace | An open source layer above any webpage.