26 Apr
2017
26 Apr
'17
4:41 p.m.
Hi Caty,
I am a fan of “B”.
I like the idea of putting the changelog and autosave options above on a preceding row. I
would argue that for most users, their eyes only see the leftmost buttons as the
functionally useful area. Thus putting Cancel on the far right effectively “hides” the
button.
For the purposes of mobile, I think it is acceptable to hide the changelog and autosave
options on small-screen resolutions. (Such as when I am editing from iPhone, I am highly
unlikely to leave a changelog message anyway.)
FWIW, taborder should be the following:
1. Edit input
2. Changelog input
3. Save button
4. Preview button
5. Cancel button
6. Autosave option
My $0.02. :)
Thanks,
Craig
On Apr 26, 2017, at 2:20 PM, Ecaterina Moraru (Valica)
<valicac(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,
On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 2:39 PM, Craig Wright <crw+xwiki(a)crw.xyz
<mailto:crw+xwiki@crw.xyz>> wrote:
Overall I like these changes. A couple of
suggestions:
No one in my community understands “Save and Continue” versus “Save and
View”. Dropping the “and Continue” is a great step, but I would go farther
and give “Save and View” the emphasis color (blue, in this case). That is
the more highly understood behavior. “Save” (and continue editing) is
useful but not as generally useful as “Save and View”. Especially if you
are dropping Preview.
FWIW, I use Preview more often from WYSIWYG mode since there is not a 1:1
translation of editor view to page view. Whereas, when I am editing source,
I can predict how it will look most of the time. :)
I would also move the Cancel button over next to the other buttons. If I
had to rate which buttons I use the most frequently, “Cancel” would be at
the top, followed by “Save and View,” followed very very distantly by “Save
and Continue."
This is very interesting behavior. I would love to be able to have some
usage stats, but with XWiki being installable and independently hosted,
stats are always hard to get by.
Personally I use "Save" a lot (I like to save often in order to not lose
stuff), but I usually use the keyboard shortcut, not necessarily the
button. It is true that 'Preview' in WYSIWYG has its usages, especially
when using macros or nested macros, since the result is not accurate.
Regarding "Save & View" I always do it as a final step, while I never use
"Cancel" - i just navigate away or hit the browser's 'Back'.
Also in terms of functionality the "Autosave" can be used instead of the
"Save", so we can remove 'Save' (especially in case of advanced
users).
So the only stats I have are from the http://playground.xwiki.org
<http://playground.xwiki.org/> from the
past 2 months. These are the top 3 pages edited, see
http://design.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/download/Proposal/IdeaVisibleSave/UsageFe…
<http://design.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/download/Proposal/IdeaVisibleSave/UsageFebApr2017.png>
Now let's see the heatmaps:
- Sandbox.WebHome:
http://design.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/download/Proposal/IdeaVisibleSave/Sandbox…
<http://design.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/download/Proposal/IdeaVisibleSave/Sandbox-Home.png>
- Sandbox.TestPage1:
http://design.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/download/Proposal/IdeaVisibleSave/Sandbox…
<http://design.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/download/Proposal/IdeaVisibleSave/Sandbox-TestPage1.png>
- Sandbox.Test.WebHome:
http://design.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/download/Proposal/IdeaVisibleSave/Sandbox…
<http://design.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/download/Proposal/IdeaVisibleSave/Sandbox-Test.png>
From these heatmaps we see that 'Preview' has the most usage and after is
"Save&View", with no usage for "Save & Continue" and
"Cancel".
Not we need to take into account 2 aspects: Sandbox is used by first-time
users of XWiki and they usually are afraid to mess things up so the Preview
is comforting for them. Also in the current layout 'Preview' is the first
button from left-to-right, so it's assumed as the primary action.
So if the initial proposal was 'varA', what do you think about 'varB'?
- var A [Save; Save & View]:
http://design.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/download/Proposal/IdeaVisibleSave/varA.png
<http://design.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/download/Proposal/IdeaVisibleSave/varA.png>
- var B [Save & View; Preview]:
http://design.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/download/Proposal/IdeaVisibleSave/varB.png
<http://design.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/download/Proposal/IdeaVisibleSave/varB.png>
- var C [Save & View; Save]:
http://design.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/download/Proposal/IdeaVisibleSave/varC.png
<http://design.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/download/Proposal/IdeaVisibleSave/varC.png>
Note: users that went to 'Preview', usually come back to the previous view,
see
http://design.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/download/Proposal/IdeaVisibleSave/Sandbox…
<http://design.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/download/Proposal/IdeaVisibleSave/Sandbox-Test-preview.png>
I left 'Cancel' at the end, in order to be the last button and have
visibility (not get lost in all the other options). Users need to use it as
an 'escape' route, so it's better to find it fast and always have a static
position = last. For this usually the first and last positions are best.
My initial rationale to remove 'Preview' from the WYSIWYG editor was that
WYSIWYG does life preview, so I though not many users use it, since I never
used it. Seeing the stats for newcomers is impressive, still it would be
great if more advanced / long-term users of XWiki would summaries a bit
their button usage, so we could take a more informed decision. XWiki needs
to accommodate both newcomers, but also long term users.
Thanks,
Caty
> Nice work!
>
> Craig
>
>
>> On Apr 25, 2017, at 6:21 PM, Ecaterina Moraru (Valica) <
> valicac(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> We had some users complaining that the first time they edit a page they
>> don't know how to save it. Depending on the screen resolution, the save
>> buttons since they are at the bottom of the page are not visible and some
>> users don't know they need to scroll in order to see them.
>>
>> We want to make some changes to XWiki, that:
>> - Display the save buttons in a fixed bottom bar, when they are out of
> the
>> viewport, see
>> http://design.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/download/Proposal/
> IdeaVisibleSave/bottomBar.png
>> - When the user scroll, the buttons go into their position, see
>> http://design.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/download/Proposal/
> IdeaVisibleSave/after.png
>> - We compacted the bottom functionalities (summary, minor, auto-save),
> see
>> before:
>> http://design.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/download/Proposal/
> IdeaVisibleSave/before.png
>> after:
>> http://design.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/download/Proposal/
> IdeaVisibleSave/smallViewPort.png
>>
>> What do you think about this proposal? Would it improve the visibility of
>> the buttons? Do you have other ideas? Is it something we should
> implement?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Caty 
