maca added a comment.
Hello everybody ! Mattia here, from the UX team . The UX team was asked to take a look at this request and how to improve upon the problems mentioned in the ticket as well as to assess which changes would not worsen other parts of the UI and its usability : to say this upfront, it is a pretty tricky issue to solve, as our space in the UI is limited and since there are very many ways to model items on Wikidata. After some conversations and evaluation of the different proposed solutions, the best start from our perspective would be changing the order of items. We think that the suggestion of ordering the statements by rank would be a good way to start with: the advantages are clearly that this introduces no new elements in the UI (so it would be more feasible to implement) and we could potentially build upon the sorting (e.g. add any collapsing of deprecated statements or the like later, if needed). Solutions based on new icons or color are sadly difficult to deal with, for some specific reasons: • Use of color is a frequent to-do-solution for highlighting various things, so it can easily have a lot of different meanings if used a lot and not very consistently. • Use of color is prone to accessibility issues as many people do have weaknesses in color perception. • Use of color easily makes the UI look cluttered Thus, as UX designers, we try to avoid the use of color except for one color for preferred actions and one color for system errors or destructive actions – like suggested in the OOUI. Similarly, icons are not very easy: • Most users are not familiar with newly introduced icons , unless we would be using icons that are very standardized (e.g. the save icon or the undo arrow). • It is hard to convey that different icons refer to the same issue (item rank) but in different manifestations (item rank of deprecated, normal, preferred): trying to overlay different icons is really hard to do well in small space. While we know that this is not the solution which is as great as we hope for initially, we think that starting with ordering statements by rank is the approach that most likely increases usability and maintains consistency of the UI with the smallest cost in terms of implementation and iterations. TASK DETAIL https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T206392 EMAIL PREFERENCES https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/settings/panel/emailpreferences/ To: maca Cc: maca, MisterSynergy, Tkarcher, Kristbaum, Lydia_Pintscher, MichaelSchoenitzer, Aklapper, cristiana023, Akuckartz, JanJaquemot, Demian, darthmon_wmde, Nandana, Lahi, Gq86, GoranSMilovanovic, QZanden, LawExplorer, _jensen, rosalieper, JGirault, Scott_WUaS, Wikidata-bugs, aude, Mbch331
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