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Re: [RFC] [marketplace] Firefox Marketplace Merchandising PRD Request for Comments
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Maria Sandberg
Dec 14, 2012, 8:38:49 AM12/14/12
to Bill Maggs, Justin Scott, Ron, Mike Morgan, Diana Livits, Dan Horner, Chad Weiner, Susan Chen, Lisa Brewster, David Bialer, Paxton Cooper, Caitlin Galimidi, Rick Fant, Daniel Buchner, Maureen Hanratty, dev-mar...@lists.mozilla.org, Wil Clouser
Thanks David,
This looks good to me overall. The one concern I have is this concept of a "promotion", which is new to me. We've previously talked about having a category tile that was a "promotional" category and would work similarly to what is described in the PRD. I would suggest that we stick with that.
Exchanging app tiles for promotions is breaking consistency in the design which results in lesser usability. A user should know and understand what will happen when they tap a particular element in the UI, and when we have tiles that look similar but do different things (go to app details page vs promotional list) we confuse users. If we make the promotions into a category we can keep it visually similar to the category tiles and keep the UI consistent. What are your thoughts?
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Maria Sandberg
UX Designer, Fx Marketplace
Mozilla Corporation
On Dec 7, 2012, at 3:51 PM, Bill Maggs <bi...@mozilla.com> wrote:
> We're all about the priorities over here in product management, and I think we made some headway on those priorities last week. I would add from experience with multiple other stores that we probably should keep the merchanizing UI and functionality simple at first in proportion to what we can measure. We can add bells and whistles later when metrics are better.
>
> Bill
>
> From: "Wil Clouser" <wclo...@mozilla.com>
> To: "David Bialer" <dbi...@mozilla.com>
> Cc: dev-mar...@lists.mozilla.org, "Rick Fant" <rf...@mozilla.com>, "Ron" <rpio...@mozilla.com>, "Susan Chen" <sc...@mozilla.com>, "Chad Weiner" <cwe...@mozilla.com>, "Maria Sandberg" <msan...@mozilla.com>, "Caitlin Galimidi" <cgal...@mozilla.com>, "Bill Maggs" <bi...@mozilla.com>, "Paxton Cooper" <pco...@mozilla.com>, "Lisa Brewster" <lbre...@mozilla.com>, "Dan Horner" <dho...@mozilla.com>, "Daniel Buchner" <dbuc...@mozilla.com>, "Mike Morgan" <morg...@mozilla.com>, "Diana Livits" <dli...@mozilla.com>, "Maureen Hanratty" <mhan...@mozilla.com>, "Justin Scott" <fli...@mozilla.com>
> Sent: Friday, December 7, 2012 3:15:44 PM
> Subject: Re: [RFC] [marketplace] Firefox Marketplace Merchandising PRD Request for Comments
>
> Thanks David,
>
> It's an interesting doc, I don't have any big objections from an
> engineering side except that I think building a usable interface for
> this will be pretty challenging and potentially time consuming. If
> Maureen and Maria feel good about it though, so do I.
>
> Wil
>
> On 12/07/2012 02:36 PM, David Bialer wrote:
> > Request for Comments on Merchandising (Featured App Tool on Steroids).
> > https://docs.google.com/document/d/17etkFPdBsyF468uZwDzyGTqmRjXulubxQ4lwDZBTk1E/edit
> >
> > The basics are that:
> > Multiple Feature areas supporting different size 'tiles'
> > Rotations to Feature Areas.
> > Ability to lock slots in Featured Areas to guarantee placement.
> > Ad-Hoc Promotions (collections of apps)
> > Sponsored Listing Results.
> > Improved App Selection and Management tools
> >
> > This is not intended as the UI design but to allow flexibility in that by the UX team.
> >
> > Thanks for your Feedback,
> > David
> > irc: dbialer
> >
> >
This looks good to me overall. The one concern I have is this concept of a "promotion", which is new to me. We've previously talked about having a category tile that was a "promotional" category and would work similarly to what is described in the PRD. I would suggest that we stick with that.
Exchanging app tiles for promotions is breaking consistency in the design which results in lesser usability. A user should know and understand what will happen when they tap a particular element in the UI, and when we have tiles that look similar but do different things (go to app details page vs promotional list) we confuse users. If we make the promotions into a category we can keep it visually similar to the category tiles and keep the UI consistent. What are your thoughts?
---
Maria Sandberg
UX Designer, Fx Marketplace
Mozilla Corporation
On Dec 7, 2012, at 3:51 PM, Bill Maggs <bi...@mozilla.com> wrote:
> We're all about the priorities over here in product management, and I think we made some headway on those priorities last week. I would add from experience with multiple other stores that we probably should keep the merchanizing UI and functionality simple at first in proportion to what we can measure. We can add bells and whistles later when metrics are better.
>
> Bill
>
> From: "Wil Clouser" <wclo...@mozilla.com>
> To: "David Bialer" <dbi...@mozilla.com>
> Cc: dev-mar...@lists.mozilla.org, "Rick Fant" <rf...@mozilla.com>, "Ron" <rpio...@mozilla.com>, "Susan Chen" <sc...@mozilla.com>, "Chad Weiner" <cwe...@mozilla.com>, "Maria Sandberg" <msan...@mozilla.com>, "Caitlin Galimidi" <cgal...@mozilla.com>, "Bill Maggs" <bi...@mozilla.com>, "Paxton Cooper" <pco...@mozilla.com>, "Lisa Brewster" <lbre...@mozilla.com>, "Dan Horner" <dho...@mozilla.com>, "Daniel Buchner" <dbuc...@mozilla.com>, "Mike Morgan" <morg...@mozilla.com>, "Diana Livits" <dli...@mozilla.com>, "Maureen Hanratty" <mhan...@mozilla.com>, "Justin Scott" <fli...@mozilla.com>
> Sent: Friday, December 7, 2012 3:15:44 PM
> Subject: Re: [RFC] [marketplace] Firefox Marketplace Merchandising PRD Request for Comments
>
> Thanks David,
>
> It's an interesting doc, I don't have any big objections from an
> engineering side except that I think building a usable interface for
> this will be pretty challenging and potentially time consuming. If
> Maureen and Maria feel good about it though, so do I.
>
> Wil
>
> On 12/07/2012 02:36 PM, David Bialer wrote:
> > Request for Comments on Merchandising (Featured App Tool on Steroids).
> > https://docs.google.com/document/d/17etkFPdBsyF468uZwDzyGTqmRjXulubxQ4lwDZBTk1E/edit
> >
> > The basics are that:
> > Multiple Feature areas supporting different size 'tiles'
> > Rotations to Feature Areas.
> > Ability to lock slots in Featured Areas to guarantee placement.
> > Ad-Hoc Promotions (collections of apps)
> > Sponsored Listing Results.
> > Improved App Selection and Management tools
> >
> > This is not intended as the UI design but to allow flexibility in that by the UX team.
> >
> > Thanks for your Feedback,
> > David
> > irc: dbialer
> >
> >
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