Firefox/Features/streamline-search

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Status

Streamline the visual appearance of the search field
Stage Development
Status In progress
Release target `
Health OK
Status note Final work occurring here: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=675753

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Team

Product manager Asa Dotzler
Directly Responsible Individual Alex Faaborg
Lead engineer Margaret Leibovic
Security lead `
Privacy lead `
Localization lead `
Accessibility lead `
QA lead Simona Badau
UX lead Alex Faaborg
Product marketing lead `
Operations lead `
Additional members Kev Needham (bizdev)

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Open issues/risks

  • If we default the search button to green (same as the go button in the location bar) if the search engine has not provided us with a color, will that cause any issues with our relationship with them?

Stage 1: Definition

1. Feature overview

The favicons in the search field are creating a significant amount of visual complexity in our product. They are using a wide range of colors, and they reduce the relative discoverability of nearby controls like reload and stop. Additionally the search field is causing a large number of mode errors, as users search the previous engine they selected for a new search term. This project aims to solve both of these problems.

This feature falls primarily in the Experience category (from the "Discover, Experience, and Connect" vision statement.)

Goals

  • Pretty
  • Reduced mode errors
  • Increased focus on various engines as verbs (not that we care that much, but a side effect of the design)
  • Increased brand awareness (not that we care that much, but a side effect of the design)

2. Users & use cases

  • Search with a greater awareness of which search engine is activated
  • Return to the search field after a long period of time and realize that your default search engine is not the currently active one
  • Enjoy the visual simplicity and streamlined appearance of the field when it is not currently focused

3. Dependencies

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4. Requirements

  • Getting major search engines to optionally specify a color that they would like to use when they are active bug 634140
  • Implementing the changes, with engines without specified colors falling back to the same color as the active go button bug 592909

Non-goals

  • Merge the search bar with the location bar (at this point)

Stage 2: Design

5. Functional specification

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6. User experience design

Mockup

Stage 3: Planning

7. Implementation plan

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8. Reviews

Security review

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Privacy review

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Localization review

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Accessibility

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Quality Assurance review

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Operations review

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Stage 4: Development

9. Implementation

Stage 5: Release

10. Landing criteria

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This feature falls primarily in the Experience category (from the "Discover, Experience, and Connect" vision statement.)

Goals

  • Pretty
  • Reduced mode errors
  • Increased focus on various engines as verbs (not that we care that much, but a side effect of the design)
  • Increased brand awareness (not that we care that much, but a side effect of the design)

|Feature users and use cases=* Search with a greater awareness of which search engine is activated

  • Return to the search field after a long period of time and realize that your default search engine is not the currently active one
  • Enjoy the visual simplicity and streamlined appearance of the field when it is not currently focused

|Feature dependencies=` |Feature requirements=* Getting major search engines to optionally specify a color that they would like to use when they are active bug 634140

  • Implementing the changes, with engines without specified colors falling back to the same color as the active go button bug 592909

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|Feature landing criteria=` }}

Feature details

Priority P3
Rank 999
Theme / Goal `
Roadmap User Experience
Secondary roadmap `
Feature list Desktop
Project `
Engineering team Desktop front-end

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Team status notes

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Engineering ` `
Security ` `
Privacy ` `
Localization ` `
Accessibility ` `
Quality assurance ` `
User experience ` `
Product marketing ` `
Operations ` `

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