On Sat, Apr 15, 2017 at 3:18 PM, Sergiu Dumitriu <ser...@xwiki.org> wrote:
> On 04/12/2017 01:47 PM, Ecaterina Moraru (Valica) wrote: > > Hi devs, > > > > Some users have complained that the content actions are too abstract / > > ambiguous and they don't see/understand them so they don't know how to > Edit > > or Create content in the first minutes of interaction. > > > > More details about this problem can be found at > > http://design.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Proposal/IdeaLabeledActions > > > > There I've suggested 2 possible proposals: > > Proposal 1: JS Tooltips > > Proposal 2: Labeled actions > > > > Which one do you prefer? > > > > Thanks, > > Caty > > > > P.S: This was a recurrent topic and we change several things over the > > years. I guess we will continue iterating until we reach the sweet spot > :) > > > > IMHO, 1 doesn't solve anything. The buttons already have classic > tooltips, and adding "improved" tooltips adds little to the > discoverability of the actions. If someone is looking for the "edit" > button, they scan the screen for that text with their eyes, they > wouldn't just hover everything with the mouse. > > The complain here was the delay the normal tooltips have and that the users switch to another item before the tooltip is displayed. > So, the question is: > > - is it better to clutter the screen to help a few first-time users that > can't interpret the pencil icon? > - is it OK to leave things as they are for a cleaner UI? > - are there better icons to suggest these actions? And by changing them > now, will current users be disoriented? > > I can't think of other Font Awesome icons to better suggest 'Edit' and 'Create'. > The deciding factor is exactly how many users have a problem with the > current UI. > -- > Sergiu Dumitriu > http://purl.org/net/sergiu/ >
