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
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. 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. Remember, these numbers (as is with all usability stats) are to bring a level of objectivity to what is inherently subjective observations.
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. While the two projects share some common ideas and use cases, the goals are not all the same. 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. More information: Rationale While Ubiquity continues to be a successful experiment, its audience remains limited to people who: However, the underlying benefits that Ubiquity offers are far more universal. And that's where Taskfox comes in. Get involved Join #fx-team on irc.mozilla.org. Mailing lists General discussion takes place on the mozilla.dev.apps.firefox newsgroup. Get the code Code Normal Firefox build procedures apply. Organization