On Jan 13, 2014, at 10:31 PM, Steven Walling <[email protected]> wrote:
> This is awesome! The latest version is extremely clean.
Thanks! I’m mostly just implementing other people’s ideas, though.
> Some ideas...
> • Needs moar serif h elements, ala the typography refresh. :)
To be honest, I’m waiting to see if that experiment actually takes
before I include it.
> • It would be useful to add some thumbnail images to see how they are
> included.
MOAR CATS?
> • It would cool to have you user test this, either with some directed
> usability tests in person or via usertesting.com. I can help write a script
> if you want.
I’m up for this, but we should fully expand it to have
secondary/dummy/working links and the like. That’s a lot of work.
> • In particular, I would like to test findability of many
> elements and interaction with areas such as search. A huge advantage might be
> putting search in a dropdown on-page from any point in the article, as
> opposed to making users scroll to the top and then go to new page for
> results. It would be cool to see this included in the prototype, even if only
> one fake search could be returned.
There’s a whole other thing planned for search around this (and I’m
working on search stuff in a different project) so it might be interesting to
include the same code.
> • I'm a little concerned that transforming the page title in to
> an element of the search box could be confusing. That looks like a search
> suggestion a little bit. I could be totally wrong though.
I, too, share these concerns. This is kind of what Facebook does, but
not quite? My own concerns are that changing the text in the search box
reduces the discoverability of search - but I figure hey, what the hell, let’s
see what happens.
> • My biggest suggestion: we should definitely prioritize having on-page
> Edit, History, and Discussion in the fixed toolbar too, if we can. As I am
> scrolling through an article, these are probably more important to have
> in-context access to than the user-related items (with the exception of
> notifications). This would also have the advantage of potentially letting us
> remove the section edit links, and just carry one prominent edit link in the
> toolbar, where ever you are on a page.
(Responded to this earlier in an reply to Erik.)
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