Mobile/ProductPlanning/Notes-2016-05-10

Hot items

Everyone

Roadmap & Funnel update

Barbara/Maria/Jenn

Android Happenings

• New program manager: Shilpi Gupta
• Custom Tabs meeting with Chrome team
• Heartbeat meeting to discuss use case
• First-run feature-focused eng work can start
• Contextual hints requirements document
• Setup dashboard for content notifications experiment (need to confirm with data expert team :)), need more data

Metrics Corner

• Content Notifications experiment (Mozilla login required)
• Engagement rate (clicked (!= loaded) vs. shown ): 17%
• Engagement rate (new probe since 05/06): "Read now" clicked vs. shown: 13%
• 34% of subscribed users disabled features, 35% of the ones disabled, turned the setting back on

(Source) --> Heartbeat

• Start of engagement dashboard based on Core Ping data
  • Android and iOS supported
  • Active Users and Engagement Ratios

Switchboard

• Live experiments

No change from last week

Release

• Bookmark-history-menu: Display "History" and "Bookmarks" menu items in 3-dot menu.
  • On for nightly, beta and release populations (Min 0, Max 100)

Beta

• Offline-cache: Try to load pages from disk cache when network is offline.
  • On for nightly and beta populations (Min 0, Max 100)

• Search-term: Show search mode (instead of home panels) when tapping on urlbar if there is a search term in the urlbar.
  • On for nightly and beta populations (Min 0, Max 100)

Nightly only

• Content-notifications-12hrs: Enable content notifications and check for updates every 12 hours at random times based on app start.
  • On for 25% of nightly population (Min 25, Max 50)
  • re:dash Nightly - Content notifications engagement (all experiments)

• Content-notifications-8am: Enable content notifications and check for updates every day at 8 am.
  • On for 25% of nightly population (Min 50, Max 75)
  • re:dash Nightly - Content notifications engagement (all experiments)

• Content-notifications-5pm: Enable content notifications and check for updates every day at 5 pm.
  • On for 25% of nightly population (Min 75, Max 100)
  • re:dash Nightly - Content notifications engagement (all experiments)

• Promote-add-to-homescreen with a minimum number of visits = 5
  • On for 50% of the nightly population (Min 50, Max 100)
  • re:dash "Add to home screen" promotion
  • re:dash "Add to home screen" - Plain counts

Not yet active

• Whatsnew-notification: Show a "What's new" notification when the browser updates. Tapping on this notification will open a new tab with a SUMO article about what is new in Firefox.
• Malware-download-protection: Enable malware download protection.

iOS Happenings

• FF for iOS v4.0 approved.
• FF for iOS v5.0 to include: New Menu design, Improved Tab interaction, Combined History and Synced tabs panels, Ability to set a start page, Support adding 3rd party search engines
• Pending decision on including bi-directional bookmark sync
• High priority for Target next: Keyboard shortcuts, Keyboard issues for other languages, Choose logins to fill, More Telemetry probes
• Latest Status Report is available HERE
  • V4.0 Release plan adjusted by one day to avoid conflict with other product release activities
• V5.0 FC Target is approaching next Tuesday, May 17th - keep an eye out for communication around Testflight

Feature Focus

If not already discussed above, a quick check on selected key projects:

• Migrating Reading List from a home panel to bookmarks
• First-run tour: as mentioned, we went over requirements, eng work can now start
• Activity stream: more mocks around top sites which can feed into AS
• Monitoring / notifying Web for new content: dashboard setup

Partner review

In-meeting updates: Karen
Status can be found on Mana

Feedback

Rob (Not in meeting; see some of you at 10/10:30)

First 2 weeks feedback - nothing exceptional

User Research

Gemma

[Non-verbal update]

• Workflows
  • Reporting. Presenting in Vancouver to the Tofino team next week. Will present broadly after that.

• Tofino
  • Participatory Design: Currently interviewing consulting firms. See RFP here if you're curious.
  • Consultant proposals due tomorrow. Selection by Friday.
  • Prepping for 5/16 work week in Vancouver.

• Hiring
  • Lots of UX Design and User Research interviews. We have three research candidates in Toronto this week for on-sites.

Marketing

Mike

Roundtable

Everyone

• Introductions
  • Shilpa
  • Amy
  • Tyler
  • Others?
• H2 Product Guidance draft
• [MP] Maria is at Apps World North America Wed & Thurs this week

Feature Demos

iOS Demos

• Set a home page - James
• Syncing message in status Bar - Steph (https://giphy.com/gifs/3o7qDDkOxBXBPXH5lu)

References

Android Notable Links

• Fennec Roadmap in Aha!
• Click Here to suggest new features for the Fennec Roadmap
• Bugs closed or resolved in last 7 days

iOS Notable Links

• iOS Roadmap in Aha!
• Click Here to suggest new features for the iOS Roadmap
• V2.0 Schedule in Smartsheet. Sign in with mozilla email and request access.
• iOS Program Status Reports

Goals

• H1 2016 Product Guidance
• H1 2016 Product Guidance one-pager