On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 8:34 PM, Mark Holmquist <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 04, 2013 at 07:59:53PM +0200, Siebrand Mazeland (WMF) wrote: > > This is for the daring, intrepid early adopters who want to see every > > single experimental feature as it rolls out. Your account will > > automatically get the latest features when they come out. You can always > > come back to this page to disable the ones you decide not to use, but > this > > will give you the most bleeding-edge experience on the site. > > > > ... consider thinking some more. Does this say about the same, and > conveys > > the same concept requiring less time of the user? > > > > [checkbox] Automatically use all experimental features. > > This was your suggestion on the patchset, when it first surfaced, IIRC. > At least I'm consistent :). > But I'm not sure that the explanations are both the same - your suggestion > gives the impression that the user would have every feature enabled by > this one, which isn't the case. *Future* features will all be enabled > by default, but existing ones will stay disabled if they were before. > > In any case, I feel I may not have been terribly clear - I *want* there > to be long-form descriptions of these features. People are working on > them and want to "sell" them to users, and this is their chance. We have, > comparatively to old preference fields, a much larger amount of space to > use for descriptions of features, which (I believe) is part of what the > design team intended - see this screenshot[0] of the extension's tab, for > example. > > I'll get in touch with them to see if I can push back on that part of it, > but if we end up with longer descriptions, what would your suggestion be? > International English, well thought out, as brief as possible. People don't read. Really, they don't[1]. The screenshot is very useful. The 4-6 word heading will probably do the trick. Make that suck less, and the fine print will be ir^H^Hless relevant. > [0] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:BetaFeatures_2013-09-04.png > [1] http://uxmyths.com/post/647473628/myth-people-read-on-the-web > > -- > Mark Holmquist > Siebrand
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