Feeds UI: Tag color, polling, dashed, button text, style guide, separator
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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KARL3 |
Fix Released
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Medium
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JimPGlenn |
Bug Description
An assortment of minor points from the review with OSI yesterday:
1) Tag color. The color on tag events is red. They noted that red is usually used for warnings, which is the wrong connotation. Perhaps a different color.
2) "Polling". Nobody on the call got the right impression from that word. Perhaps "Auto-refresh" or "Auto-update".
3) Dashed underline on "timeago". Makes them think it's clickable. Override the style injected by the plugin to remove the dashed underlines.
4) Button text. The word "Feeds" isn't needed in the button. Also, need a third button, make them: "All", "My Communities", "My Content".
This also implies a changeover to jQuery UI buttongroups, e.g. "Radio button style toggle buttons set" at:
http://
5) Style guide. They asked for a quick (under 5 minute) explanation of what colors and hues went with which actions. Tack it on as a comment on this ticket.
6) Visual separator. Tougher one, don't spend too much time on it. I explained the organizing principle that we emphasizing scanning first, reading second. The scanning is for the changes, the reading is for the details of the content that were changed. The changes are the primary emphasis, left-to-right, while the content details are de-emphasized and subordinate.
Once I explained that, Tom and the others understood, but they didn't get at first why things were laid out as they were. Jason asked if you could come up with some visual cue that prompted the idea that stuff on the left is primary and different than stuff on the right.
My guess, around 3-4 hours.