Snooze Tabs
A Firefox add-on that simplifies browser tab management
A Firefox add-on that simplifies browser tab management
A Firefox add-on that simplifies browser tab management
Design Challenge
How might we help people continue their tasks efficiently, over a period of time
How might we help people continue their tasks efficiently, over a period of time
How might we help people continue their tasks efficiently, over a period of time
Project Type
Mozilla Testpilot research program
Role
I designed the initial UI for Snooze Tabs Firefox add-on and further refined it for commercialization, under the guidance of Sevaan Franks. During this period, I streamlined the UX through discussions with the stakeholders over video calls.
Skills
User Research, Interaction Design, Visual Design, Prototyping
Team
Parag Nandi, Sevaan Franks, Blake W, Erica W, Les Orchard, Peter Dehaan, Emil Pasca, Ciprian Muresan
About Mozilla Testpilot
Test Pilot is a series of experiments and research initiatives intended to convert a rough concept to a commercialized Firefox feature or Add-on. It combines iterative prototyping, user research, and an opt-in user-facing testing platform. Experiments go through phases that are designed to evaluate new feature concepts quickly and at a low cost.
For more details, check out: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Test_Pilot
Research Methods
Literature Study(Firefox Research documents on Save, Share, Revisit, Workflow & Task Continuity)
Dipstick interviews with IIT Roorkee students, alumni, and faculty to understand browser usage behavior
Key Insights
Most people use small, immediate tools such as text messages and screenshots to save, manage content and string together larger tasks.
Tasks and contents are often recalled through cues like an open browser tab. Most people rely on memory to remember and continue a task.
When saving content, most people intended to revisit it within a short time frame — usually the same day or within a few days.
Over a while, people often forget to revisit the tabs and open a new window to carry on with the next task.
Problem Statement
Design an easy-to-use tool for saving and revisiting browser tabs that could streamline the task-continuity workflow for users.
User Interface Solution
Initial Sketches and Wireframes
Low-fidelity Mockup
Icon Explorations
Workflow Conceptualization
Workflow Conceptualization
Final Deliverables
SnoozeTabs Branding for launch on Testpilot
What We Learned
58,000+ people used Snooze Tabs over about 400,000 sessions
“Tomorrow,” “Pick a Date/Time,” and “Later Today” were the most selected time options for snoozing and re-snoozing. This suggests that people tend to anticipate continuing with a browser task in the short term rather than anticipating what they will do in the next few weeks.
More than half of the tabs that were snoozed were snoozed when woken. This data suggests that people may have a hard time accurately predicting when they will be able to return to a task.
We saw that most woken tabs were given focus, which suggests that the feature may have at least helped people remember the snoozed tasks.
For more information, please check out https://medium.com/firefox-test-pilot/snooze-tabs-graduation-report-254e0d395887
What's Next
Snooze Tabs has graduated from a Tespilot experiment to a Firefox add-on. It is available for all Firefox users from the Add-ons Website
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/snoozetabs/
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