Hi all, We've updated the borders around alerts so that they are more prominent.
[image: error alert (1).png] [image: success alert (2).png] [image: Neutral alert.png] Everything else stays the same. Let me know your thoughts if any. Shirley & Shruti On Wed, May 31, 2017 at 3:02 PM Shirley Wang <sw...@pivotal.io> wrote: > On Wed, May 31, 2017 at 11:55 AM Dave Page <dp...@pgadmin.org> wrote: > >> On Wed, May 31, 2017 at 2:27 PM, Shirley Wang <sw...@pivotal.io> wrote: >> >>> >>>> When you say "icon" here, are you talking about the combo box arrow, or >>>> icons on the items themselves? The latter are often useful if you have >>>> items of different types in the same list. >>>> >>>> I think we should have the combo box arrow, to show the user they don't >>>> have to type if they don't want to. >>>> >>> >>> I'm talking about the combo box arrow. I think that's fine, but in that >>> case users shouldn't be able type, they should only be able to select from >>> a group of options, like this: >>> >>> [image: options.png] >>> From what I understand, the text field where a user can type in is for >>> searching through options available to them. If we know that people tend to >>> search by typing more than scrolling, we should use the precedent for type >>> ahead dropdowns <https://twitter.github.io/typeahead.js/examples/>. >>> >> >> We are using a much older precedent - one used in Windows for 20+ years >> (possibly other OSs too). >> >> Remember that some of these combo boxes contain values that are specific >> to the database object - the user may not know what to start typing, so the >> arrow gives them a hint that they can get a list by clicking - or they can >> type. >> >> The real difference here is that we also include the x to allow the box >> to be cleared, where Windows would add a blank option as the first thing in >> the list typically. >> >> > I see. It feels like we're at a standstill as to which precedent to use > and neither of us is wrong. This might be a good candidate for user > testing. We can see how people are using the x as well as learn more about > typing / selecting an option behavior. > > I believe there are some dropdowns in the partition design we can use to > test. If it doesn't make sense there, I'm fine putting this in the back > burner until there is a good workflow to test it. >
