Firefox/Features/Sync Discoverability

Feature	Status	ETA	Owner
Improve Sync discoverability	UX mockups done, figuring out resourcing.	2011-04-20	Ragavan Srinivasan

Summary

It's really hard for users to discover the Sync feature. By improving discoverability, we hope to:

• Increase user uptake
• Ensure users are already syncing & have data waiting when they setup Sync on Fennec.

Team

Who's working on this?

• Lead Developer: TBD
• Product Manager: Ragavan Srinivasan
• QA: TBD
• UX: Alex Faaborg
• Project Manager: Jennifer Arguello

Release Requirements

• Does not affect performance in production/beta channel builds.
• Firefox prompts users to set up Sync in a non-intrusive, non-annoying way.
• Promotions can be turned off, if needed.
• Promotion text is localized.
• Promotion text may be modified out of band. [P2]

Next Steps

• Identify developer(s).
• Project kick-off meeting.
• Start hacking.

Related Bugs & Dependencies

• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=618913

Designs

• http://areweprettyyet.com/5/syncPromotion/#

Goals

• Users become more aware of Sync on the desktop and set it up.
• More Firefox users sign up for Sync.

Non-Goals

Things we are specifically not doing or building as part of this feature.

Other Documentation

Can include things like:

• Competitive landscape
• Research & references
• Whatever else is useful to the project.

Legend (remove if you like)

	Healthy: feature is progressing as expected.
	Blocked: feature is currently blocked, but not yet at risk of missing this release.
	At Risk: feature is at risk of missing this release.
ETA	Estimated date for completion of the current feature task. Overall ETA for the feature is the product release date.

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