https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29303
Erik Moeller <[email protected]> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |[email protected] --- Comment #5 from Erik Moeller <[email protected]> 2011-09-23 01:59:51 UTC --- To be sure, I agree that it's taking up more space than is necessary, especially given the currently still very limited actual functionality. Thanks for thinking about alternative UIs. The reason that we haven't pushed harder on this front is that we're most interested in making the tool more powerful and exploring some radically different ideas with it (specifically, free-text commenting and meta-moderation of those comments to promote high-quality feedback to the talk page). We're currently in the final stage of selecting a vendor do this development work. But if anyone would like to tackle some UI improvements, with additional mock-ups or directly in the code, I'd encourage you to take a crack at it, and we'll try to help. Note that there are specific reasons related to the purpose of the tool (article assessment) for the current interaction flow. 1) The "View ratings" feature is deliberately decoupled from the rating flow in order to minimize biasing effects on raters. Raters shouldn't see the results without choosing to do so, and they should be able to choose to see them independently of rating. 2) The "I am knowledgeable" is integrated into the flow, prior to the submit button, to ensure that raters understand it as part of their submission. Those design requirements should be taken into account when making UI changes. We also need to be careful with lower screen resolutions, resized windows, etc. And, of course, even if we change the layout, we need to be careful not to cram too many controls into a very narrow space -- it makes it harder to understand which parts of the UI surface are intended to be interacted with, and in which order. Too much whitespace in a UI surface can be annoying -- but too little can make a user interface feel crammed and complicated. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
