Re: [xwiki-devs] [UX][Brainstorming] Simplifying the Homepage

Hi, I'll summarize some ideas gathered from other XWiki SAS employees: 1. Instead of being a Dashboard, the homepage could be a plain wiki page. This would help the newcomers easily edit it. 2. We could remove some of the applications listed in the AppBar for Administrator, in order to feel less cluttered. Invitation, Scheduler were the most mentioned apps, especially since some users don't find them polished or useful enough. Also User Index is present also in the Drawer. I've created this issue for this idea http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-13433 3. There were mentions that the default content should help the user understand what XWiki is about. This is somehow related to the point 1 and with the idea of extending the "Welcome" gadget to contain more complete / helpful information. People mentioned also having videos about XWiki or Getting started steps. 4. Not really related to the homepage, but related to 3 was the availability of multiple templates options in the create step, letting the users understand what kind of pages they can create. We already have an issue for the Blog app http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-13376 . Maybe you have other ideas of bundled / other apps we should provide templates for. 5. Many people said that they don't find the "Send Message" gadget to be relevant enough to be on the Homepage and they would want it removed. This issue is somehow related to 1. If we were to change the Homepage to be a wiki page, than they will not see this gadget anymore. I've created http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-13432 but we still need to think if we want to remove it also from Dashboard or 1. will fix the problem. 6. Multiple people said that they would want also to have the Tree part of the panels area, maybe replacing the Appbar or in addition to it. The opinions are mixed since some consider the breadcrumb to be enough or others are concerned that the Tree is not a scalable element. 7. Related to the Appbar people mentioned that the order changes depending on the language and is alphabetical. They would prefer to have a manual order assigned by the administrator. We have http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-13075 for this use case. Let me know what you think about these ideas and maybe you have more. Thanks, Caty On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 7:18 AM, Ecaterina Moraru (Valica) < valicac(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: