Identity/Department Status/2013-08-16
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- Identity Department Focus
The team is currently focused on three key objectives:
- Fixing Sync - We must fix stability and usability issues in the present sync service
- One way to log into firefox - A single email / password and experience for Mobile, Desktop, and Web products (like Marketplace)
- Persona Adoption - We must quantify and increase the number of websites using Persona in Q3
For more information related to all Identity projects, please visit the Identity wiki.
- Signin to the Web (Persona)
Project Overview:
- Persona is designed to eliminate website passwords and empower users to choose their own identity online.
- It's long term goal is to become a standardized and browser-native means of decentralized authentication on the Internet
Current Activities:
- The Persona Identity Bridge for Gmail users was announced on August 8th. For more information, check out the blog post.
- Beta versions of new verification libraries for Perl and Node.js have been released. These libraries help community developers securely integrate Persona into their own projects:
- Profile in the Cloud (PiCL)
Project Overview:
- We're going to take the interesting data in your Firefox Profile and move it to the cloud - make it possible to access and manage this data from web apps, mobile apps, and all of our products - Mobile, Dekstop, and OS.
- PiCL is a project whose short term goal is to fix firefox sync.
- The long term goal to give users easy access to their Firefox data from any device.
Current Activities:
- Check out the results of the UX in-person usability study :: http://people.mozilla.org/~jgruen/pdx_deck/
For more information about this project: For more information about this project:
- Persona Analytics
Project Overview: Measuring Persona: User adoption, website adoption, error discovery, etc.
Current Activities:
- New graphs : overall dialog engagement and bounce rate
- Spelunking through data to answer a number of questions that are emerging after gmail bridge announcement (and subsequent traffic spike)
- Decided not to use Optimizely for A/B testing the sign-in dialog for security reasons, planning on home grown solution
For more information about our metrics effort, visit our Persona Analytics page and KPI Dashboard [LDAP required].
- Identity Key Points of Contact
- Lloyd Hilaiel, Director Engineering
- Dan Callahan, Signin to the Web
- Chris Karloff, Profile in the CLoud (PiCL)
- Jed Parsons, Native B2G & FXOS
- Katie Parlante, KPI & Metrics
- Crystal Beasley, UX
- Tauni Oxborrow, Sr. Program Manager
