On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 10:05:40AM +0200, Jaromír Coufal wrote: > >However, I've noticed in the past that people can overlook our flash > >messages because they can be so subtle. I think these will help, but I > >wonder if it's worth giving them more aggressive backgrounds or > >something. > > > >I'm not sure it's as attractive, but I just forked that and put this > >together: http://codepen.io/n1zyy/pen/xvfms > You have a point, I was also thinking about coloring a background. > From usability point of view it would definitely increase it's > visibility. On the other hand it might be to much poppy and > irritating. Except better visibility, I also wanted these flash > messages to be decent (not blatant) and current design compatible. > That's why I used left colored border and improved icons. For > increasing usability there are also links.
Yes, I'm torn about this. Though I wonder if we could make them look like shiny candy buttons or something. There's got to be a way to make them noticeable but also visually-appealing. > Another fact is, that majority occurrence of flash messages is at > form pages, where we will (hopefully) have improved forms with > highlighted invalid input fields. And what we don't want is to > significantly alert to user on each and every place of the page that > he is wrong. This could be contra-productive. This is a really good point that I hadn't considered, actually. Although they're not all like that, and I think we need the more critical failures (for example, launch failures) to be called out a good bit. > I think, if we have flash messages at the top of the page (don't get > confused by codepan, because it displays it in the second half of the > page), the visibility should be enough, because it should also > cooperate with other features to help user in fulfilling his goal. > Not as independent alerting function. Do you mean *above* the blue header, at the very top of the page? > Do you agree? > >(Also: my first entry on codepen.io -- nifty site!) > Great! Welcome at Codepan! :) I like it so much, even though it has > some annoying bugs, which make my day worse, but in general really > handy tool. I'm yet to hit any bugs, but I'm sure in due time I will. :) > >I just set a background-color set to a lighten()'d version of the border > >color. They're maybe a bit uglier, but they're harder to miss. > As Brian suggested to darken background a little bit, I agree (if it > should be this case), so I used your fork and adjusted that a little > bit: > http://codepen.io/coufalj/pen/FdnjH > > But in my opinion it is too jarring. I think they still look good. The light orange color looks a little pink/peach-y on my monitor, but they look good to me. > >Just a thought, in any case. > Matt, thank you for all of your contributions, really like your ideas > and every piece of discussion can bring better result in the end, so > it is really welcome. Happy to help! -- Matt
