15 Apr
2017
15 Apr
'17
2:18 p.m.
On 04/12/2017 01:47 PM, Ecaterina Moraru (Valica) wrote:
Hi devs,
Some users have complained that the content actions are too abstract /
ambiguous and they don't see/understand them so they don't know how to Edit
or Create content in the first minutes of interaction.
More details about this problem can be found at
http://design.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Proposal/IdeaLabeledActions
There I've suggested 2 possible proposals:
Proposal 1: JS Tooltips
Proposal 2: Labeled actions
Which one do you prefer?
Thanks,
Caty
P.S: This was a recurrent topic and we change several things over the
years. I guess we will continue iterating until we reach the sweet spot :)
IMHO, 1 doesn't solve anything. The buttons already have classic
tooltips, and adding "improved" tooltips adds little to the
discoverability of the actions. If someone is looking for the "edit"
button, they scan the screen for that text with their eyes, they
wouldn't just hover everything with the mouse.
So, the question is:
- is it better to clutter the screen to help a few first-time users that
can't interpret the pencil icon?
- is it OK to leave things as they are for a cleaner UI?
- are there better icons to suggest these actions? And by changing them
now, will current users be disoriented?
The deciding factor is exactly how many users have a problem with the
current UI.
--
Sergiu Dumitriu
http://purl.org/net/sergiu/