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
- Proposed Site Architecture (high level)
- Wireframes for Page Types, Article Level Template, Search (in progress)
- User Research
Redesign Documentation
Current:
- Redesign Goals
- Home Page Content - brainstorming what goes on the new MDN homepage
- MDN Community content - what info we should provide about the MDN community
- Content "Zones" Requirements Doc
- Proposed Page Layouts
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