Alexander Shorin created COUCHDB-2235:
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Summary: CouchDB logo location on sidebar: at the top or at the
bottom?
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
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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