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Robert Newson commented on COUCHDB-2235:
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The Fauxton team are working on a design, they have the expertise and are
making the effor. The Fauxton team don't have to justify this decision to you,
you are obliged to either veto it (with justification) or propose (and deliver)
an alternative.
Please let's not promote our own personal opinions on UI and aesthetics to
full-blown JIRA topics.
> CouchDB logo location on sidebar: at the top or at the bottom?
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> Key: COUCHDB-2235
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB-2235
> Project: CouchDB
> Issue Type: Question
> Security Level: public(Regular issues)
> Components: Fauxton
> Reporter: Alexander Shorin
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> In COUCHDB-2234 was point about CouchDB logo location on sidebar. Why I said
> that it's ugly and doubtful decision?
> 1. Fauxton looses brand context. When you open the main page the hot eyes
> spot is the sidebar top and middle of the page with database names. In fact,
> you didn't see the logo at the bottom unless you'll look on it. Actually, no
> one web site provides hot spot for bottom corners (except for the right one,
> but that's Windows users specific) - you may easily ensure in that by reading
> about eye tracking technique.
> Why this is bad? There is Fauxton for CouchDB, Cloudant, I know there is port
> for PouchDB. Refuge.io may be also take Fauxton instead of Futon. Anyway,
> there are couple of products which are uses Fauxton and actually they only
> difference between by two moments: colour schema (if project has designer and
> spent time to rewrite all the styles) and project logo (which is easily to
> fix since you don't have to be designer or spend a lot of time for fixing
> css).
> So we have the quite awkward situation: we're opening Fauxton and we don't
> know which product it belongs to until we explore all the corners. Also note,
> that CouchDB logo in Fauxton is out of hot eyes spot since it shares overall
> design colour schema.
> 2. Loosing functionality. In Futon and for old Fauxton sidebar the logo
> served two proposes: branding and implicit button to collapse sidebar. Now
> they are split into two different elements which causes:
> - reducing available space for real "burger" menu elements. Actually, for
> height 768 px (13'' screen) there is no more free space for new menu items:
> every new ones will causes scroll bar which makes design ugly.
> - reducing functionality. What's your expectations when you're clicking on
> the logo? Returning back to home - that's intuitive and expected behaviour.
> As for Futon UX, collapsing sidebar not much expected, but also not harmful.
> Now the logo is just a nice picture that does nothing, but consumes valuable
> visible space that could be used more effectively.
> As far as I see, there is no reasonable explanation of having logo at the
> bottom of sidebar, so I wonder what was the reasons for doing this.
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