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<p>Hi everyone, my name is Alex and I'm the new Lead UX Architect of
Thunderbird, I want to put an extra stress on the word "new" as I
literally started March 1st.</p>
<p>I agree with what Eyal wrote, and even if I'm still trying to get
used to the process here, and learn how to properly use mailing
lists, I wanted to give my 2 cents regarding the website.</p>
<p>My main goals are the following:</p>
<ul>
<li>Improving the UX and UI of Thunderbird</li>
<li>Bringing UI and UX consistency to the Thunderbird website and
blog.</li>
</ul>
<p>During my first day, I did a quick review of the current status
of the website, the navigation, the usability aspect, and the
various inconsistencies, and everything you wrote is inline with
my initial conclusions.</p>
<p>Now, I don't know if there are any plans already defined, but I
wrote down a sort of half baked plan of action in order to get the
ball rolling and start fixing problems. Here's an approximate
draft + roadmap:</p>
<ol>
<li>For the end of the next week (March 8th), I will have a series
of low fidelity wireframes to identify a solid Infrastructure
Architecture (IA) of the Thunderbird web presence, including
website with all its necessary pages, and the blog.</li>
<li>Design iterations to define a proper web style guide, with
some initial work on a design system, will go on for the next 3
weeks, with the goal of producing a complete series of high
fidelity design files.</li>
<li>Once the design is approved,coding the new layout, starting
from the front landing page, and continuing with a rolling
release approach, page by page, section by section.</li>
</ol>
<p>I'd suggest avoiding to tackle the entire update at once from a
development point of view and slowly updating sections and pages,
in order to split the work in smaller tasks, and keep using the
momentum of "weekly updates" to boost traffic and publicity.</p>
<p>As I said, non of this was defined or approved, and it's all
based on my previous years of experience in this field, but I
think that a solid, tight, and properly defined roadmap, is
necessary to solve all the issues your wrote int he original
email.</p>
<p>Let's discuss,<br>
Alex<br>
</p>
<p>P.S. I'm honored and excited to be part of this amazing group and
I hope to be able to always exceed your expectation and help make
Thunderbird the best email client out there.</p>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2019-03-01 9:39 a.m., Eyal Rozenberg
wrote:<br>
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cite="mid:fad977d9-3cca-5e09-cf77-d11bcfcdfd58@technion.ac.il">
<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">Motivation:
So, someone just asked on the elections list for our council's current
composition, and what we are able to give is just this:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://wiki.mozilla.org/Modules/Thunderbird#Thunderbird_Council">https://wiki.mozilla.org/Modules/Thunderbird#Thunderbird_Council</a>
which doesn't cut it.
If I visit <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.thunderbird.net/">https://www.thunderbird.net/</a> , I should be able to readily
access information about the organizational infrastructure behind
Thunderbird, including information about the Thunderbird council, its
its role, its composition, its members background - as a minimum. But -
this information is not accessible nor does it seem to exist, i.e. I
can't find a page about that anywhere.
In fact, if I click the small "about" link, what I get is the Mozilla
Foundation:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/">https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/</a>
whose navigation bar / menus will essentially tell me Thunderbird
doesn't exist and there's only Firefox.
If I go back to our website, I don't see what would be telling me "Hey,
I'm not dead yet! I'm getting better!" (Monty Python reference there,
sorry.)
If click the twitter user link:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://twitter.com/intent/follow?screen_name=mozthunderbird">https://twitter.com/intent/follow?screen_name=mozthunderbird</a>
I see few tweets and their nature also hints at us being sort of near death.
Just saying,
Eyal
PS - It's not that the website is not reasonably-nicely-designed.
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