Making the claim “users want control” is the same as saying you don’t know what users want, you don’t know what is good, and you don’t know what their goals are.
I first started thinking about this during the debate over what would become the ACA. The …
Or: The Best Way To Do Something Is To At Least Try
We all know the story: you can’t make money on open source. Is it really true?
I’m thinking about this now because Mozilla would like to diversify its revenue in the next few years, and one …
I have been part of the Firefox Test Pilot team for several years. I had a long list of things I wanted to build. Some I didn’t personally want to build, but I thought they were interesting ideas. I didn’t get very far through this list at all …
I recently listened to a discussion of knowledge work in the browser. Along the way people imagined idealized workflows and the tools that could enable them. This result felt familiar from concept videos since forever (such as this old Mozilla concept video):
The result featured lots of jet-setting highly engaged …
In Bringing people back to the open web Chris states:
But most users don’t care about the principles or implementation of an open web, at least not in those terms. Most people don’t see themselves as ever having left the open web behind, and if you told them …
We recently released Email Tabs in Firefox Test Pilot. This was a project I championed, and I wanted to offer some context on it.
Email Tabs is a browser add-on that makes it easier to compose an email message from your tabs/pages. The experiment page describes how it works …
I’m blogging about the development of a new product in Mozilla, look here for my other posts in this series
A while back we got our first contributor to PageShot, who contributed a feature he wanted for Outernet – the ability to use PageShot to create readable and packaged versions …
I’m blogging about the development of a new product in Mozilla, look here for my other posts in this series
We’re in the process of reviewing the KPI (Key Performance Indicators) for Firefox Hello (relatedly I joined the Firefox Hello team as engineering manager in October). Mozilla is …
I’m blogging about the development of a new product in Mozilla, look here for my other posts in this series
And now for something entirely technical!
We’ve had a contributor from Outernet exploring ways of using PageShot for capturing pages for distribution on their network. Outernet satellite-based content …
Conway’s Law states:
organizations which design systems are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations
I’ve always read this as an accusation: we are doomed to recreate the structure of our organizations in the structure of software projects. And further: projects …
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