MDN/Projects/Completed/Redesign

As part of supporting the launch of Firefox OS and an ongoing desire to improve the usability of MDN, we'll be embarking on a site redesign in 2013.

High-Level Redesign Goals

• Unified experience for developers - across MDN docs, Mozilla tools and products
• Improve user experience & usability
• Better site structure, navigation & ability to quickly find key content
• Update the design to something dynamic, modern, & more consistent with the brand
• More flexibility in content sources and presentation (wiki, github, read the docs, offline, on mobile devices)

Redesign Phases & Schedule

• Full Site Redesign/Rebranding - further refine global nav & homepage, new site design, restructure information architecture, new landing pages, new features
  • Architecture proposal completed and shared for feedback - 27 June
  • Community feedback of proposals via IRC - 17:00:00 GMT 28 July
  • Wireframes completed and handed off to design team - 2 July
  • Design phase completed - 2 August
  • Implementation roll out - August 20-September 30

Track progress through the Redesign Tracking bug in Bugzilla

User Experience

Landing Page wireframe

• Proposed Site Architecture (high level)
• Wireframes for Page Types, Article Level Template, Search (in progress)
• User Research

Redesign Documentation

Current:

• Home Page Content - brainstorming what goes on the new MDN homepag
• MDN Community content - what info we should provide about the MDN community
• Proposed Page Layouts
• Redesign PRD
• Redesign Goals

May 2013 Release:

• PRD for Content Zones/DevHub integration
• Home Page content for May 2013 Release
• DevHub Integration Strategy
• Devhub Requirements (aka MDN Curation)
• Kickoff meeting notes