Labs/F1/Roadmap

	F1 2011 Roadmap
	Owner: Bryan Clark	Updated: 2011-03-15
	User Goals: Create a fun, fast, and reliable system that encourages people to share Embrace the different types/levels of sharing people are comfortable with Platform Goals: Create a trusted partner for people to share links through Standardize pieces of the link sharing activity, open it up to more players Reduce the sharing NASCAR effect on sites Work with sites to provide mutually beneficial user interactions

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Overview

Mozilla F1 is a simple and fast sharing service designed to enhance the sharing experience of the browser, Firefox, when sharing web sites.

name

The name F1 is a project name that is not necessarily the final name when compared with more standardized/branded names like Firefox Share.

tech

The project is both a hosted service and an add-on to Firefox. The hosted service acts as an OAuth proxy service which the add-on uses to push shares through.

Problems Use Cases

Copy & Paste

Alice finds a hilarious LOL Cat she wants to send to her friends. Now she enters the precarious world of focus, selection, and the clipboard.

Here is the only route of success (assuming no keyboard shortcuts):

1. Single click into the URL bar — this should focus and select the entire URL
2. Click the Edit Menu to open the menu
3. Click the Copy Menu Item to copy the text to the clipboard
4. Open a tab with your sharing service — either a new tab, reusing an existing tab, or using the current tab
5. Focus / Open the services compose interface — compose message, what's on your mind?, what's happening, etc.
6. Click the Edit Menu to open the menu
7. Click the Paste Menu Item to paste the URL into the text entry

At each of these steps exists a number of ways to fail, we'll only cover a few major ones here.

1 focus

with anything more than a single click into the URL bar a user will not be selecting the entire URL which will block the rest of the steps

2,3 selection

when the user goes to copy the URL they risk changing the focus/selection of the URL which will block them from copying or make them copy the wrong text

4,5 transition

if the user doesn't already have the service open they will now have to load the page which can be slow and systems like often are not ready for immediate sharing.

6,7 focus

And finally if the user clicks anywhere else besides the text entry as they are choosing to paste there will be no notification of the failed state they entered.