On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 12:37 PM, Brandon Harris <[email protected]>wrote:
> > I think the main edit button at the top should not be the quiet state > from mw-ui. There is very little use of color on the skin now, so it's not > like we're overwhelming things. We need to stop being afraid to make a few > things LOUDER, particularly since in this prototype we're removing some > color (like the Vector borders). > > So, I tried it with the main edit being blue and it was *crazy* > loud. The most-important thing in the page loud. So I made it quiet and > it looked better. > It is not that loud, as you can see at http://i.imgur.com/X4uhU2T.png and it _is_ the most important call to action on the page. > Now, this speaks to the larger problem we’re trying to solve: > user awareness of the edit button. > > We know that Vector’s tab layout has trained people to pretty much > ignore the tabs, so they don’t see the edit tab (tab blindness, call it). > By pulling the tabs into the main content area, we are working to solve > that - to bind the actions directly to the content they affect. > > Currently the tab blindness causes people to not know they can > edit, so we have fewer editors. > > I think think that making the edit link loud will definitely > *increase* overall edits (in fact, I’ll stake my job on it), but I think it > will result in a radical increase of *bad* edits as well. Too many “kick > the tires” vandalisms, maybe. > > It’s definitely something we can test, though. In the last GettingStarted A/B test, we delivered an "Edit this page" CTA that was twice as large and delivered in a modal,[1] and it did not result in a radical increase in bad edits. There's no need to A/B test this or be scared about bad edits. 1. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Screenshot_2013-11-01_of_gettingStartedReturn.png -- Steven Walling, Product Manager https://wikimediafoundation.org/
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