1126326 - [UX] Improve user flow and UI for file downloads

Status: NEW

(Firefox :: Downloads Panel, defect)

Description

[(Currently slow to respond) Philipp Sackl [:phlsa] (Firefox UX) please use needinfo]

Attachment: Current Download Windows

Our current download windows have a number of issues:

- They are very text-heavy and hard to parse
- The distinction between the two kinds of windows feels very arbitrary from a user perspective
- The window with more options requires lots of clicks to get a download going
- The windows look dated in general

Objective for this bug:
- Create a design/flow that makes it clearer what is happening and ideally also reduces the number of clicks needed

Comment 1

[:Paolo Amadini]

There's some pre-existing work with a design for making these tab-modal, but we can probably improve the windows as an intermediate step. This definitely touches an outdated area of our code.

Comment 2

[David Lawrence [:dkl]]

Mistakenly filed against Firefox 38 and should be instead 38 Branch. Sorry for the spam. dkl

Comment 3

[Markus Jaritz [:markus] (UX)]

Attachment: 150528_Download-Flow_current.png

Adding a flow of how download currently works.

Comment 4

[Markus Jaritz [:markus] (UX)]

Attachment: 150803_Download-Flow_withCloudStorage.png

…and a possible improvement of the flow.
(and adding cloud storage to the process.)