Amir. Someone must have done a study on this... I still remember the day I had someone join us in IRC asking why you couldn't sign in on mobile. I explained it was behind the menu and then realised the problem was he hadn't realised the hamburger was a menu button. I probed to try and understand where he was from but he left angrily thinking I was trolling him trying to make him feel even more stupid :-(
Note to self: Investigate event logging for hamburger across different language projects and reply to this thread with analysis in comparison to search/language feature to identify projects where this may be a problem. On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 5:05 PM, Amir E. Aharoni <[email protected]> wrote: > 2014-11-24 2:20 GMT+02:00 Jon Robson <[email protected]>: >> * They struggled with the captcha when registering (surprise >> surprise). It's English words not Chinese words. I notice everyone has >> WiFi passwords here that are numbers. It would be interesting to >> explore captchas that involve numbers if that is at all possible. > > A lot of sites have numbers for CAPTCHAs. > > A lot of sites don't have CAPTCHAs at all :) > >> * In the language overlay in 3 out of 3 cases where people have used >> it they all seemed to scroll down, no one realises they can search for >> the language at the top. That's a UX problem I guess we need to fix. > > While you're at it, could you please keep this in mind, too? - > http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Interlanguage_links/September_2014 > >> * They didn't seem to recognise the hamburger as a menu icon > > I would really love to read more research about it. We're really not alone > with the hamburger: a lot of mobile sites use it, and the mobile style is > becoming so ubiquitous that it's used on desktop sites, too. You mobile devs > probably know this much better than I do ;) > > And yet, when I talk to people about Wikipedia and show them the mobile site > and the VE, which also has a hamburger icon (page options, categories), they > are baffled by this icon's meaninglessness. > > Maybe it works in some cultures and doesn't work in others? And maybe its > ubiquity is based more on a designers' meme than on actual usefulness to > people? > > -- > Amir -- Jon Robson * http://jonrobson.me.uk * https://www.facebook.com/jonrobson * @rakugojon _______________________________________________ Mobile-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l
