On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 5:11 PM, Vincent Massol <[email protected]> wrote:
On 18 Apr 2017, at 15:55, Ecaterina Moraru (Valica) <[email protected]> wrote:
On Sat, Apr 15, 2017 at 3:18 PM, Sergiu Dumitriu <[email protected]> wrote:
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.
The complain here was the delay the normal tooltips have and that the users switch to another item before the tooltip is displayed.
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?
I can't think of other Font Awesome icons to better suggest 'Edit' and 'Create’.
But for the Delete/Rename/Copy we need to change the icon for sure since right now we’re using a “settings” type of icon which is quite misleading.
Ideas: - http://fontawesome.io/icon/clone/ - http://fontawesome.io/icon/files-o/ - http://fontawesome.io/icon/file-o/ - http://fontawesome.io/icon/clipboard/
The Administer page should probably be moved elsewhere.
How about the "More actions" labeled grouping from http://design.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/download/Proposal/IdeaLabeledActions/P4_no... For these changes we need https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-14002 and https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-12595 Thanks, Caty
Thanks -Vincent
The deciding factor is exactly how many users have a problem with the current UI. -- Sergiu Dumitriu http://purl.org/net/sergiu/