[Design-team] Plans for Nuancier: A Fedora Wallpapers Voting App

[Kirk Bridger]

I agree with Máirín's comments - well stated!  It feels like there is a 
feature here that hasn't been defined as such: the ability for me to 
choose any number of images as "Maybe's" and then have a second round of 
choosing/narrowing down.  I think it could be a compelling feature but 
it is not needed to get a first version out.

I support the focus on having a single round of choosing/voting with a 
visual tray where my votes appear while I'm voting.  Keep the choices on 
the screen while I'm reviewing so I can remove something if I find 
something I like more.  Máirín understates it when she says 16 is a 
"high" cognitive load.  People can  struggle with remembering 4 or 5 
items.  Screen real estate for 16 images is fairly large if they are 
sized so I can see the thumbnails adequately.  I'd support the idea of 
reducing the vote count, but maybe that could be made configurable in 
the system (in a later release)?

Kirk



On 09/07/2013 07:59 PM, Máirín Duffy wrote:
> Jenneh and I talked about this in IRC a couple of weeks ago and I had
> thought we were in agreement that the two-step process is really not the
> best way.
<snip>
> The other thing in Ryan's design which makes the selection task easier
> is that he mocked it up with only 5 selections allowed. Limiting the
> wallpaper selection to 5 means people are only going to pick those
> wallpapers they are the very most excited about, and it's going to be
> easier for them to pick them because they don't have as many slots to
> worry about. You might worry that letting people pick 5 means we won't
> have enough wallpapers voted for to make 16 for the package, but if we
> have > 100 wallpapers to choose from, the probability that our users
> would pick the same 5 over and over is really low. The more wallpapers,
> the lower the probability. 16 selections is a pretty high cognitive load.
>
> ~m
>