Beta Features

Purpose/Goals
The purpose of labs experiments is to allow for foundation designers and engineers to roll out small scale projects in an environment where a large numbers of user can test, give feedback, and use these features in real world settings.

Access
Labs experiments will be located within user preferences for signed in users.

Appearance
While lab experiments will live within preferences, the layout is purposefully different to both inspire interest and propose a departure from the standard layout and complexity of the existing user preferences.



Functionality
Users will have the option of opting into individual experiments or setting a preference to be automatically enrolled in new experiments as they are released to labs. When new experiments are made available to users an echo notification will be sent out via site-wide notification (echo) to increase visibility, and get additional feedback so the design team can react, update and improve experiments before making a decision to integrate into core, iterate more, or abandon the experiment.