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== Staff ==
== Contacts ==
* Ben Francis - Product Owner
* [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/bfrancis/ Ben Francis] - Product Owner
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Revision as of 18:53, 17 May 2016

Project Tablet
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Author(s)
Mozilla
Released
2016.05.11 (Initial Pitch)
Innovation Status
Stage 1 (Validation)

Project Tablet aims to a explore a simple, single-purpose tablet, completely dedicated to browsing the web.

If you would like to participate, you can get in touch with our connected devices participation team, or find us in the #tablet channel on irc.mozilla.org.

Project Overview

Hypothesis

Current tablet products are not meeting the needs of late majority adopters. There could be a demand for a simple, affordable browser-based tablet.

Problem

If all you want is a secondary device for casual web browsing and entertainment, existing tablets are over-complex:

  • High friction app-centric experience more suited to productivity and communication
  • Content buried inside separate apps
  • Have to download an install an app just to try it, then clean up apps you don't use

Solution

A simpler tablet:

  • Lightweight OS focused on web content
  • Instant access to content, no app installations needed
  • Automatically populated home screen

Project Status

Next step:

  • User study to test a prototype and validate the hypothesis.

Success criteria:

  • User study identifies a good problem/solution fit
  • The concept resonates with users in the target segments
  • Consumers would consider choosing the product over competitors

Design

  • Features
    • Just the web, no app store
    • Dynamic home screen
    • Browse the WoT nearby
    • Automatic updates
    • Firefox Sync & Add-ons
  • Early UI Mockups
  • See video of early prototype in action

Development

  • The source code for an early prototype of the tablet UI is on GitHub here.
  • This is an experimental branch of gecko which includes the prototype tablet chrome. To try out and hack on the prototype on a desktop PC you can build it in the same way you build Mulet, the B2G development environment.

Meetings

Meeting notes will be recorded on an Etherpad. Meeting times TBD.

Discussions

  • IRC: #tablet on irc.mozilla.org
  • Forum: Awaiting new Discourse topic creation

Contacts

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