On this basis should I not touch the order on the preferences form...? On 28 Aug 2014 18:01, "Jared Zimmerman" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Steven I totally agree, I have a meeting with James/Editing team to talk > about instrumentation of the WTE which we'll need to move forward with a > good comparison here. I would say that we only need to prove that it is not > disruptive, rather than measurably better. Do you feel like we'll need to > do quantitative tests on every button group or just some key forms like > edit, account creation, and maybe one or two others? > > > > *Jared Zimmerman * \\ Director of User Experience \\ Wikimedia > Foundation > M +1 415 609 4043 \\ @jaredzimmerman <http://loo.ms/g0> > > > > On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 5:40 PM, Steven Walling <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> >> On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 4:53 PM, Jared Zimmerman < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> 1) yes, the "primary action" will be rightmost, this could mean >>> progressive, in the case of a multi-step form form, destructive in the case >>> of process where the primary function is to delete something and >>> constructive in the case of the final step in a single or multi-step >>> process that creates something or finalizes a non destructive process. >>> >>> 2) they should be ordered from right to left in order of importance and >>> frequency of use, there should only be one primary action. secondary >>> actions should have neutral or quiet appearance. >>> >>> We will capture as many patterns and best practices in the mediawiki.ui >>> living style guide as possible, however they will be a guide and set of >>> best practices, and there will likely be exceptions, and places where the >>> patterns break down. >>> >>> >>> Without completely redesigning the bottom of the wikitext editor, the >>> minimal mediawiki.ui version of the WTE bottom could go from >>> >>> [ Save Page ] [ Show Preview ] [ Show Changes ] Cancel >>> >>> to… >>> >>> *Cancel/Discard* (mw.destructive.quiet) *Show changes* >>> (mw.progressive.quiet) *Preview* (mw.progressive.quiet) *[ Save ]* >>> (mw.constructive.normal) >>> >> >> Whether we change to follow this pattern needs to validated with users >> before we attempt to standardize on it. If we're going to completely flip >> the order of our actions on forms then we need to demonstrate that it's >> worth it. >> >> >> >> -- >> Steven Walling, >> Product Manager >> https://wikimediafoundation.org/ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Design mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/design >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Design mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/design > >
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