Hi Ermouth, Regarding the visual guide, I think there are some changes I can make right away: namely the Hi at the end, and the Answers section. Someone brought this up before as well, but the problem was, I wasn’t happy with just “thank you for reading.” or “goodbye”.
Regarding a designer who is familiar with Fauxton… I don’t know any. The designers we have now will have to be caught up a bit on how CouchDB works, and how Fauxton works. I would love to redesign the flow of information, but I’m not a very good designer, and I’m not sure if I can convince people to go with designs from someone who doesn’t have much design clout. What did you think of my diagram last email for each section? I think I can implement it fairly easily with css only. Michelle > On Aug 17, 2015, at 10:28 AM, ermouth <ermo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, Michelle. > >> as they struggle against what’s going on with picture on the left side > > They won‘t struggle. Users just leave. Right now Fauxton UI is more > self-explaining than guide for it. > >> I am still thinking about: should i redo the whole thing, or keep the > design and just add a toggle for the above alternative view > > /*Putting on art-director hat*/ > Ask designer, who is familiar with Fauxton, to make it better. Or – redo it > by yourself. > > Layout definitely requires much, much more work: > > * increase text contrast > * remove ALL unnecessary gaps, start screens, irrelevant giant images and > so on (you do not sell or advertise, you give info – so give info, not > space) > * comfortable position for long texts is center, not right side > * text width must no exceed 700-800 px, better 700 than 800 > * put texts and images in a single column, zigzag reading is very annoying > * most images can be trimmed from the bottom > * since it‘s a guide, make navigation always visible > * in Headers section most of screenshots can be combined in a single image > * logically linked texts must not have n*100px gaps (like in Header bar > section) > * never make callouts, that are directed opposite to text (some of your > callouts goes left, although text it at the right) > > Also it seems that Answers section at the end is completelly irrelevant. > After reading guides most users have questions about the product itself, > not about ‘How can I contribute’. > > Couch with Hi at the end is also completely irrelevant. Hi at the end? May > be ‘Thank you for reading’? > > BR > > ermouth
