Re: [xwiki-devs] Fwd: [Discussion] New location of the "Add" menu in the new Flamingo skin

Hi, Some notes about the proposal: - I like the 'Add' represented as '+' and after the Wiki/Space/Page breadcrumb, because is somehow consistent with the '+' (More applications) from the AppBar. Provides a way to create elements of a particular type in the near vicinity where the elements are displayed.

- Although I know there will be some initial findability issues for the 'Add', after the user founds it I don't think it will have problems finding it again. We can improve the findability by finally providing an Introductory Wizard. Except for the initial moments when you learn XWiki, I don't see the point of having a very distinctive style for 'Add' and I would prefer to go on the consistent/integrated with the other navbar elements direction. - The same comment about a distinctive style for 'Search'. IMO 'Search' should look integrated in the .navbar. - I dislike the idea of having multiple 'Add' buttons. Also the 'Add - Comment to page' and 'Add - Attachment to page' are part of the Colibri skin, but IMO were 'close to never' used. I remember a bug on them that made them unusable and we discovered it after some years or something. Also I don't think we should provide buttons for all the functionality we can think of, but leave them be created from their context. I prefer having buttons just for the generic and base concepts of XWiki (in the try of keeping it minimal and simple). - We are kind of going a bit too crazy about brainstorming and ideas. The only conclusion we need to reach is if for Flamingo we move the button back top.

Thanks, Caty On Fri, Oct 3, 2014 at 1:43 PM, Eduard Moraru wrote: > Big +1 for Var3 for the simple fact that it looks like a "holistic"/global > approach that does not only focus on a specific element, like the "Add" > button and currently falls into the mistake of making it a bright shiny > beacon to misguided users, resulting in something that is overall > disturbing to the eye. Same can be said about the "Search" element, since > it now reduces the heavy contrast of both the search input (bright white on > dark background) and its search button (bright colored blue on dark > background). > > About the Search button (re: Jeremie): Because it is the first element in > its group, it will show to the left and no other elements will be > disturbed, so the transition will be nice for users. Basically the expand > search button (the magnifying glass) becomes a button once you expand it, > so there should be no flicker or anything like that. > - As an alternative, if we really are against > transitions/animations/expandable elements/etc, we could just present the > search as directly expanded (classic way), but still keep the darker input > color to avoid the "kitch" effect described above due to high contrasts. > > About the + (Add) button, IMO, the only thing we could do more if we really > want to emphasize it in an *elegant* fashion, would be to make the + sign > itself green, or with some green border, whatever. Whatever we do, we > should try to consider Caty's opinion on style here since she might have a > better eye and this proposal here seems to be towards that direction. > > IMO, one very interesting thing to note is the extended (3.4) version and > long term view that we also need to take into account and, at least to me, > that looks really slick. > > I think we should stick to the original intent of this Flamingo skin, with > the addition of Bootstrap's style, and keep it slick, minimalistic and to > the point. The users should focus more on the content instead of the UI, > don`t u think? > > ------ > On a related note, If you ask me, I would be in favor of also removing the > labels from "Edit" and "More actions" and just go with the *all too > obvious* "pencil" and "cog" icons. GMail uses the "cog" icon with 0 > problems and I kind of trust that their UX army did their research and > impact studies for that :) > > Also, on matters of "consistency" we would achieve the following statement: > "Actions have only icons, while entities have an icon and a label that > displays the entity's name". > - Actions: add, edit, search, more actions, etc. > - Entities (with dropdown menu for actions on the entries): wiki, space, > page, user. > ------ > > Let's keep this skin clean and a pleasure to work on/with, WDYT? > > Thanks, > Eduard > > On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 8:09 PM, Ecaterina Moraru (Valica) < > valicac(a)gmail.com > > wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I've created this proposal > > http://design.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Proposal/FlamingoAddMenuLocation > > Please read it and give your opinion on it. The proposal is based on > > discussed solution, but improves a bit the styling. > > > > If you are curious how I reached some of the proposal's conclusions, you > > can see it's iterations > > > > > http://design.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Proposal/FlamingoAddMenuLocationIter… > > > > Thanks, > > Caty > > > > > > > > On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 7:59 PM, Guillaume Lerouge > > wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > actually one thing we could try is this: > > > > > > - *Keep the "Add" button where it is and use it for page-related > > > actions:* > > > - "Add child page" > > > - "Add comment" (as suggested by Denis) > > > - "Add attachment" (as suggested by Denis) > > > > > > > > > - *Add a "Create" button in the top bar, with 2/3 options:* > > > - "Create page" (TBD) > > > - "Create space" > > > - "Create wiki" > > > - In this case, after clicking "Create" the user would be presented > > with > > > a page / modal box listing existing instances as well as available > > > templates > > > > > > I think this would solve both my issues (having less-frequent actions > in > > > the same location as a more-frequent one, not being in the right place > on > > > the page) and GuillaumeD's wife issue (the "Add" button is easy to find > > > where it is right now, why move it?). > > > > > > WDYT? > > > > > > Guillaume > > > ᐧ > > > > > > On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 1:48 PM, vincent(a)massol.net > > > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > On 2 Oct 2014 at 13:31:56, Eduard Moraru (enygma2002(a)gmail.com > (mailto: > > > > enygma2002(a)gmail.com)) wrote: > > > > > > > > > On that note: > > > > > The funny/sad thing to realise is that we are basing all this > > > discussion > > > > on > > > > > the fact that some users did not find the "Add" button *only the > > first > > > > > time* they tried to do something. The realization is that this is > one > > > of > > > > > those things (idioms[1][2]) that you learn once and know how to > > easily > > > do > > > > > the next 1000x times (like riding a bike). > > > > > > > > > > The real problem appears when you are in those "next 1000x time" > and > > > you > > > > > find it cumbersome to use (like riding a bike with no saddle, or > with > > > the > > > > > saddle on backwards :) ). So in both cases (top or middle of the > > page) > > > > once > > > > > you find it once, you will find it again, however in the middle of > > the > > > > page > > > > > it conflicts too often with the Edit button and other page related > > > > actions, > > > > > that it becomes cumbersome to use. > > > > > > > > Indeed that’s something I had in mind too. If you just ask to add a > > page > > > > and that’s all then you’re not doing a full test. You’d need to ask > the > > > > user to: > > > > - add a page > > > > - delete a page > > > > - move a page > > > > - create a space > > > > - etc > > > > > > > > And then only you can draw some conclusion IMO. > > > > > > > > Thanks > > > > -Vincent > > > > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > Eduard > > > > > > > > > > ---------- > > > > > [1] http://thor.info.uaic.ro/~evalica/hci/L2/ > > > > > [2] > > > > > https://www.englishforums.com/English/IdiomsVsMetaphors/cqwl/post.htm > > > > > > > > > > On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 12:47 PM, vincent(a)massol.net > > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On 2 Oct 2014 at 11:06:00, Guillaume Louis-Marie Delhumeau ( > > > > > > gdelhumeau@xwiki.com(mailto:gdelhumeau@xwiki.com)) wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > Hi. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I have done the "test-on-my-wife" thing :) > > > > > > > > > > > > > > She finds it more intuitive to add a page from the current > page, > > so > > > > in > > > > > > the > > > > > > > current location, instead of the "black bar that gives the > > > > impression of > > > > > > > not beeing a part of that page" (that she did not manage to > find > > by > > > > > > > herself). > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I then explained that the buttons inside the page only concern > > the > > > > > > actions > > > > > > > that you can do on that page, meanwhile adding a new page > should > > be > > > > put > > > > > > in > > > > > > > an other location. She did not like this logic :) > > > > > > > > > > > > So with this logic we should remove the top bar completely and > move > > > all > > > > > > actions inside the page, i.e. have only 1 menu inside the page. > > > > Because if > > > > > > she couldn’t find the Add button there she also wouldn’t be able > to > > > > find > > > > > > all wiki-related actions, space-related actions and more > > importantly > > > > > > **page-related** actions like copy page, rename page or delete > > page… > > > > > > > > > > > > Also would be fun to ask your wife to try using Confluence and > see > > if > > > > she > > > > > > fails to create a page there too. > > > > > > > > > > > > Thanks > > > > > > -Vincent > > > > > > > > > > > > > Users' logic and developer's logic are not the same. I like the > > > > current > > > > > > > location too, except that we should propose "create page" > before > > > > "create > > > > > > > wiki". > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I really would like to have some feedback of normal users, with > > > the 2 > > > > > > > proposals. We, as developers, are not good at making things > that > > > look > > > > > > > simple for other people, so we should not take this decision > > alone. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > > > > Guillaume Delhumeau