Aloha,

The other day I was in #habari discussing a UI issue in the comment  
management interface.
Essentially the issue probably boils down to the fact that if you just  
install your blog, you do not yet have a timeline:
http://screencast.com/t/ST0lOQ5nrRO

Therefore you just have this big grey area separating the search input  
fields, the action buttons and the actual comments.
As a result I never realized that there was a way to search for  
comments since my eyes never made the connection between the input  
fields and the comments, even though by now its possible to see the  
timeline building up. I just got used to the UI thinking there was no  
search. Furthermore that also caused me to frequently mistake the  
action buttons as filter buttons, since I sort of expected there to be  
a search obviously.

At first I suggested not having 2 separate floating containers for the  
search and the comments, essentially moving the search, the action  
buttons and the comments onto one floating container. This however  
would mean that all other management interfaces would also need to see  
similar changes.

After pondering it a bit more, I think one solution would be to make  
the timeline look more like the search field. That is it should not  
span the entire width and it should get rounded corners. This way it  
no longer works as looking like a "separator" when the timeline is not  
yet visible, because the blog has just been installed.

regards.
Lukas Kahwe Smith
[email protected]




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