#374: UX feedback on fedmenu
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Reporter: ralph | Owner:
Type: UX/Interaction Research and Design | Status: new
Priority: medium | Severity: Moderately
Resolution: | Involved
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Comment (by ralph):
Replying to [comment:2 mattdm]:
I have two broad concerns.
The first is that the floating F seems somewhat intrusive and may be
off-putting.
Its constant presence even as I scroll implies that it's
something that is going to be constantly useful and relevant.
Cool. Easily, we could make the F much smaller so that it is less
intrusive. That's a quick-fix response.
I'm definitely open to other ideas of how to change or re-do it if we come
up with some (I just can't think of any.. or, the floating F is the best
idea I could come up with).
The second (and I guess related somewhat to the second part of that)
is
the contents. I think the focus should primarily be on users (and in this
context users is often "contributors"), with the list prioritized for that
(and maybe with more descriptive names?).
We have more descriptive paragraphs of each service already in the data
source, so we can use those right away if we can figure out how to situate
them in the menu. It felt too cluttered when I tried it early on, so I
backed out and just stuck with the name. We also have icons for *most* of
the services, but not all. I ended up leaving those out too so that it
would look less 'patchwork'.
You mentioned in the github ticket about the order of services there
currently. It is super easy-fix to just re-order them or hide some if we
think "no one will want to know about this particular one".
Longer term, we can totally re-org how info is presented. I guess we just
need some ideas about what else to do. Presenting the list of all
services seemed like a good go to me as the guy who had to figure out the
entire service-surface of fedora infrastructure in order to do the badges
project. In that process, I realized that it wasn't documented anywhere
and no one actually knew what the sum total was. Having that list is
valuable to me.. but it's certainly arguable that it's not useful for the
casual wiki visitor or fedora user.
Longer term, and going to that "always useful and relevant"
point, it'd
be interesting to have this serve as a notifications inbox. Have it
light
up in some way when I've got a message.
If it could be done _medium_ term, one thing that'd be specifically
awesome is
new badge notifications. Show me when I've earned something,
and the last few badges I've acquired.
Both of these are cool ideas but they both involve a technological leap
that's not all that simple. This javascript shim would have to know about
your login status and who you are. We **might** be able to pull that off
by checking for a cookie from
id.fedoraproject.org (the tricky part that
might not get in our way is that almost every one of our 30-some apps
represent user-login differently). I'll talk with puiterwijk about it.
It makes sense for fedora-hubs to be the data source that gets queried for
"stuff for you".
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