[Commotion-admin] [mlab-browser-ext] UI/UX Mockups and General Notes (#24)

[critzo]

*Summary*
The general theme for the browser extension UI is to have it take the look, feel and interaction of  a "lab notebook" where people have the opportunity to be a part of a science experiment. The visual look and feel is intended to have a very notes/sketchbook feel, but allows people to share their results, categorize and add metadata which they could then potentially share with MLab if they choose. The other use cases we definitely want to think about are researcher and journalist use cases. So the intent of this was to think about what we might be able to improve prior and thinking a little about longer term design plan for the browser and the observatory to some extent.

*Notes:*
- Add MLab high level settings to the browser extension settings area.

*Preferences for the Extension:*
- Where to store data
- location categories for annotating tests
- ability to run in the background --> if so, frequency
- Always send to MLab? or frequency for pushing data to MLab public store (for low connectivity or censored locations? maybe?)

- Expand the side bar menu to have the ability to pick a test & run that test or see past results (see updated mockups)

*visual design*
- local/sketch book feel
- give the user a sense of ownership over their data
- compare my data with data from the public data set
- share & tell a story on social media
- share & tell people about the extension itself and to join you as an "internet tester" (just thinking about this today, need to have a fun user role that makes people want to be a part of the people contributing data)
- add the ability to add notes about the conditions, such as -- location, experience data that's subjective, public/private wifi connections, wired/wireless, etc
- add the ability to download/export the data to work with it in a data program
- maybe show a table of results below the chart / or a log of the test that have been run in a feed view

*landing page view ideas:*
- overview of mlab & the extension w/ test log or a prompt to run a test if the browser ext hasn't been used yet
- overview of mlab & the extension w/ small multiples of charts to explore - way to show all of the data in coordinated views (would be a cool thing to try eventually)

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