I would say that is a Neutral button, because we have not idea if it would be the primary action on the page, while it is the start of a workflow (leaving a talk page message) it isn't necessarily the primary action on the page.
*Jared Zimmerman * \\ Director of User Experience \\ Wikimedia Foundation M +1 415 609 4043 \\ @jaredzimmerman <http://loo.ms/g0> On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 6:08 PM, May Tee-Galloway <[email protected]> wrote: > We're in the midst of determining which buttons should be blue. Here's a > good place to talk about it and try to determine how we should use it. > > Blue is a progressive color. When I'm editing an article, a blue "Next" > button lets me know what to do to move forward in this workflow that I > intentionally started. > > If I want to use a blue button that isn't particularly in any workflow, > say.. I'm looking at a page detailing why this user hid my comment, it has > to be an action that moves me forward and completes a certain task from the > current page, which could be a button like "Talk to User." > > Determine what the page is about and its intention and then think about > what moves users forward and completes the user's most likely intended > task, or our preferred route (if any) for the user. > > Another example.. say I'm at the Wikimedia shop, the cart link would be > blue because it moves me forward and out of the site when I'm done with the > page (which is to make you buy stuff). > > In the case of user profile, which is a page that shows you a user's > activity, I wouldn't know what would be appropriate for a blue button. It's > a pretty neutral page to me or I just don't know enough about this page to > say what should be blue. > > mm > > On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 5:20 PM, Jon Robson <[email protected]> wrote: > >> In the profile page of mobile [1] we have a button at the bottom of the >> page. >> Is there any reason for it having blue text? >> >> When you take a look at the styleguide it seems like an >> mw-ui-progressive or just a simple mw-ui-button [2] >> >> We currently have a bug [3] associated with this button due to its >> uniqueness, so I'm keen to work out how to make this button be >> consistent with other buttons and opened a standardisation bug [4]. >> >> Can someone chip in on the bug report with how it should be styled in >> the language of the styleguide and if needed, provide a new icon for >> talk that isn't blue? >> >> Thanks! >> >> [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:UserProfile/Jdlrobson >> [2] http://tools.wmflabs.org/styleguide/desktop/section-2.html >> [3] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/70947 >> [4] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/71071 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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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