Closed Bug 913728 Opened 11 years ago Closed 9 years ago

On desktop add messaging when installing an app from search results

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(Marketplace Graveyard :: Consumer Pages, enhancement, P3)

enhancement

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(Not tracked)

RESOLVED WONTFIX

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(Reporter: cvan, Assigned: tarungupta.y12, Mentored)

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(Keywords: uiwanted, Whiteboard: [good first bug][ux][ui][design][big-d?])

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If you install the app from its detail page, there is a message telling you where the app now lives. The "Free" install button becomes a "Launch" button that opens the actual executable.

From a search results page (or "Featured Apps" listing page) we don't have any messaging after you click the install button, so it's not made obvious to user where the app lives if it was his/her first app installation.

Any ideas of how to show this to the end user? Tooltips? Message bubble?
Severity: normal → enhancement
Priority: -- → P5
Marking this P3 since the majority of app installs occur on the search/category pages.
Assignee: nobody → asantos
Priority: P5 → P3
Whiteboard: [mentor=mhanratty][goodfirstbug][ux][ui][design]
Assignee: asantos → ehunt
Whiteboard: [mentor=mhanratty][goodfirstbug][ux][ui][design] → [mentor=ehunt][goodfirstbug][ux][ui][design]
Hi. Can i work on this...
This would be my first bug.
Yes, please work on this bug :) Feel free to rethink the experience on the app details screen as well as the search and category screens. Things I would think about are:

• How is app installation messaged in the browser chrome? What messaging is already covered by the browser application that we might not necessarily need to include on the Marketplace website? For example do we need to show "Installed" if the browser chrome is messaging that to the user?
• The assumption with the current design on the details screen ("Launch this app from your Applications directory) is that the user doesn't know where the application was installed on their device. Is this true?
• If messaging is needed, where is the best place to put it so it is noticed by the user after she has clicked on the "Free" button? Will the message be permanent or will it animate in and then go away?

For a bit of comparative research I'd take a look on how the Chrome web store handles messaging when you install one of their apps on Chrome (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/category/apps).
Mentor: ehunt
Whiteboard: [mentor=ehunt][goodfirstbug][ux][ui][design] → [goodfirstbug][ux][ui][design]
Whiteboard: [goodfirstbug][ux][ui][design] → [goodfirstbug][ux][ui][design][big-d?]
Assignee: ehunt → nobody
Why can't we add the same message on this screen as on the App Details page? 

See the attachment here:
https://bug913728.bugzilla.mozilla.org/attachment.cgi?id=8459679

Works same way as App Details - if you navigate away and come back, the message is gone, but Launch button remains.
Whiteboard: [goodfirstbug][ux][ui][design][big-d?] → [good first bug][ux][ui][design][big-d?]
I want to work on this bug.
Sure, assigning you to the bug.
Assignee: nobody → tarungupta.y12
Status: NEW → ASSIGNED
Mentor: ehunt → mstriemer
Hi Tarun, any update on this? Let us know if you need any help.
Flags: needinfo?(tarungupta.y12)
We don't think this is a worthwhile fix, but if you really want to work on it, we can re-open.
Status: ASSIGNED → RESOLVED
Closed: 9 years ago
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
Flags: needinfo?(tarungupta.y12)
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