On 04/12/2017 01:47 PM, Ecaterina Moraru (Valica) wrote: > Hi devs, > > Some users have complained that the content actions are too abstract / > ambiguous and they don't see/understand them so they don't know how to Edit > or Create content in the first minutes of interaction. > > More details about this problem can be found at > http://design.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Proposal/IdeaLabeledActions > > There I've suggested 2 possible proposals: > Proposal 1: JS Tooltips > Proposal 2: Labeled actions > > Which one do you prefer? > > Thanks, > Caty > > P.S: This was a recurrent topic and we change several things over the > years. I guess we will continue iterating until we reach the sweet spot :) >
IMHO, 1 doesn't solve anything. The buttons already have classic tooltips, and adding "improved" tooltips adds little to the discoverability of the actions. If someone is looking for the "edit" button, they scan the screen for that text with their eyes, they wouldn't just hover everything with the mouse. So, the question is: - is it better to clutter the screen to help a few first-time users that can't interpret the pencil icon? - is it OK to leave things as they are for a cleaner UI? - are there better icons to suggest these actions? And by changing them now, will current users be disoriented? The deciding factor is exactly how many users have a problem with the current UI. -- Sergiu Dumitriu http://purl.org/net/sergiu/
