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There are five main areas of the addons manager that this redesign will involve: | There are five main areas of the addons manager that this redesign will involve: | ||
#Maintaining and Configuring | #Maintaining and Configuring | ||
:*Allow users to quickly locate the addon they want to inspect | |||
:*Provide simple, usable controls for basic addon operations such as disabling and uninstalling | |||
:*(at best) Provide users with a consistent place to go for a particular addon's preferences, or (at worst) provide users with a consistent place to go to launch a particular addon's preferences | |||
#Updating | #Updating | ||
:*Indicate to the user that updates are available without blocking the startup of Firefox | |||
:*Allow the user to choose silent updates if they prefer, and for those updates to happen without interfering with browsing | |||
#Installing | #Installing | ||
:*Streamlining the install process to as few steps as possible | |||
:*Providing the user with a clear indication of the process and what actions are needed, especially in the face of possibly differing install experiences per addon (restart required vs not) | |||
#Discovering | #Discovering | ||
:*Providing a compelling first run experience to new addons users, including showing what addons can do in a way that makes sense to non-technical users | |||
:*Allowing users to search for addons from within the Addons manager, only requiring a visit to AMO when greater community involvement or information is sought | |||
#Troubleshooting | #Troubleshooting | ||
:*(possibly) Provide a way to rank addons by size, RAM, etc to see if disabling one would give a significant performance boost | |||
While a cohesive redesign will likely touch all of these areas, the first iteration of the addons manager redesign will consider tiers of importance in where to direct efforts and design. | While a cohesive redesign will likely touch all of these areas, the first iteration of the addons manager redesign will consider tiers of importance in where to direct efforts and design. | ||
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'''Tier One: ''' <br> | '''Tier One: ''' <br> '''Basic Functionality'''<br>Minimum features needed for usable addons manager, would substantially change in any redesign | ||
'''Basic Functionality'''<br>Minimum features needed for usable addons manager, would substantially change in any redesign | |||
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'''Tier Two: ''' <br> | '''Tier Two: ''' <br> '''Current Problems<br>'''Areas that are currently interrupting user tasks | ||
'''Current Problems<br>'''Areas that are currently interrupting user tasks | |||
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'''Tier Three''':<br> | '''Tier Three''':<br> '''Enhancements<br>'''Features that are currently barely present in addons manager but would provide substantial value to users | ||
'''Enhancements<br>'''Features that are currently barely present in addons manager but would provide substantial value to users | |||
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| 1. Maintaining and Configuring | | 1. Maintaining and Configuring | ||
| 2. Updating | | 2. Updating | ||
| 4. Discovering | | 4. Discovering | ||
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The goal of this project is to substantially improve the basic functionality of the Addons Manager (tier one), turn current "interruption" areas into integrated parts of the browser (tier two), and provided added functionality that will benefit addons users (tier three). | The goal of this project is to substantially improve the basic functionality of the Addons Manager (tier one), turn current "interruption" areas into integrated parts of the browser (tier two), and provided added functionality that will benefit addons users (tier three). | ||
A successful but less ambitious redesign in the first stage would substantially improve basic functionality and fix current problems, but would leave added feature enhancements to future versions. | A successful but less ambitious redesign in the first stage would substantially improve basic functionality and fix current problems, but would leave added feature enhancements to future versions. | ||
The minimum level of success would be to substantially improve the basic functionality of the Addons Manager, while developing a plan of action for fixing current problems and adding new features. | The minimum level of success would be to substantially improve the basic functionality of the Addons Manager, while developing a plan of action for fixing current problems and adding new features. | ||
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<br> <br> ===Installing | |||
<br> ===Installing | |||
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