I think ultimately what I want for a new jug is a wizardy kinda thing with a modal dialog front and center that prompts you to add feeds, and when you're done you click next and some jQuery slides the feeds you entered over to the sidebar, and then says "now enter some filters", and as you add filters the sliders appear front and center for you to tune (and maybe all the while you can see the articles changing in the background through a transparent gray overlay), and when you're done with that the filters slide over to the right too and reveal the articles you've tuned behind them. (phew) I think presenting chunks of the UI one at a time like this could be a win... might make it look less complicated when you see it all together.
Of course we just did a huge redesign so something like Chris is proposing with the 3 steps illustrated is probably way more appropriate for now. Maybe we can come back to a more wizardy thing a few milestones from now. Ok i'll shut up already. On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 8:41 PM, Christopher Patterson < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't know the history on removing the arrow, but this raises an > interesting question about whether we're providing enough direction to users > on the tryit page. > > I wonder if it makes sense to have a copy of the feed-import form within > the tryit markup, or to have a more explicit breakdown of "Step one: add > feeds" / "Step two: add filters, and adjust until you're happy with the > results" / "Step three: save" - perhaps illustrated? > > Chris > > > > On Oct 22, 2008, at 7:31 PM, Joshua Bronson wrote: > > Just noticed we lost the big green arrow pointing to the feed search box >> on the no_feeds page. Was this because of technical difficulties >> (positioning it correctly etc) or some other reason? >> >> I ask because a non-Generation-X, -Y, or -Z family member just emalied me >> to ask what I'm working on, and I fear she won't know what to do once she >> gets to http://melkjug.org/tryit without the big green arrow. But maybe >> I'm just being paranoid. >> > > > > -- > Archive: > http://www.openplans.org/projects/melkjug/lists/melkjug-development-list/archive/2008/10/1224722499595 > To unsubscribe send an email with subject "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] for questions. > >
