Re: My usability experience - Asa Dotzler should be fired

> Google is definitely in charge. Now, I'd
> hate to see all locked down, non-customizable Firefox one day which
> even updates itself without express permission from me. By designing
> everything for the dumbest imaginable user (general trend of computing
> is, everything is being dumbed down gradually), advanced users are
> going to be pretty thoroughly pissed.

:)

it should be variety, degrees, isn't UX of Mozilla should reflect the
variety of its users?

> My view is, Firefox is headed to Chrome's general direction,

headed by whom?

people are developing the staff like LessChrome HD, because they like it
(https://mozillalabs.com/prospector/2011/05/20/lesschrome-hd-more-space-to-browse/)

> That was an exercise of pointing a shotgun at a perfectly functional
> UI (WinXP), firing, and seeing where everything lands.
Personally - i highly disrespect MS but i'v seen a good things in
UI-UX design of the every Windows system i'v seen,
and i'v seen/tried all of them (including these - before 3.1), all in
various environments.

For me - it's like a continues community patching of a hopeless,
likely to be defective-by-design game, that you, unfortunately - like.
If you like it - you will see the bright sides and there would be
actually a bright sides.
Same i could say for apple's;
For every - hellishly hard-able to really customize thing.

It is just a perception based on habits,
If you do your own designed OS or browser or cup of coffee, you could
see - how it all bad and wrong for you,
how they "disrespect" your, personal, needs. waste your, personal, time and
it may be realized as a horrible mistake and lead to hate.

If you just use the systems, like browsers for example - because they
kind of works and than -
try to follow the UI-UX that meant for you - only in that case you
could try hard
but, eventually, bend your mind over the experience that is meant to
be, even if it all would be un-consistent
or rotten or etc. in places.
You could think of it as being made by
big and highly-paid teams that hack your mind and sell you the
desire.. or, at least, receive the enormous amount of lulz in process.

There are bright sides in Vista, there are bright sides in current
Firefox for Linux design :)

There are always a bright sides - even in worst games and movies,
depending on POV, am i wrong?
You always could learn something.

Once i have heard that in comparison to other browsers, all the other
mass-used-browsers
- Firefox is a browser with soul.

UX with soul, UI with soul.
I hope it would remain like this,
whatever soul it will be,

example -
that back/forward buttons that are the same for IE
and back is bigger than forward for FF,
that is a soul for me, someone have lived through
the experience of using back more often than forward,
though it would be nice to distinguish these, to make
it more - "for the end-user"

example - that back button is big and by that dominates
the forward and whole the bar by that - it depresses someone.

which is a reality?


..for other, as Aza said -
>>    What I mean exactly  -  is a future - where people could receive exactly what
>>    they need by a combined add-ons+themes+persona affords
> This is in the roadmap for Firefox. The UX team gave a public presentation on just such a feature two weeks ago. You may be able to find more participation on this kind of topic in the UX or Firefox lists rather than the mozilla dev planning list.

i'd be cool with this ability, total customization, what could be more
inspiring and useful for end-users. Only excellently done tools ofc.


PS: I like the current approach of surveying for usability and etc. On
other side i guess that it could be that first
step to mass surveillance, depending on who would lead Mozilla or kinds.

What can we do with it.. there are always the shades (as for me:) and
every tech and UX-UI could be used for Evil :)