On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 8:46 PM, Brandon Harris <bharris(a)wikimedia.org>wrote;wrote: Brandon, This is awesome! The latest version is extremely clean. Some ideas... - Needs moar serif h elements, ala the typography refresh. :) - It would be useful to add some thumbnail images to see how they are included. - It would cool to have you user test this, either with some directed usability tests in person or via usertesting.com. I can help write a script if you want. - In particular, I would like to test findability of many elements and interaction with areas such as search. A *huge* advantage might be putting search in a dropdown on-page from any point in the article, as opposed to making users scroll to the top and then go to new page for results. It would be cool to see this included in the prototype, even if only one fake search could be returned. - I'm a little concerned that transforming the page title in to an element of the search box could be confusing. That looks like a search suggestion a little bit. I could be totally wrong though. - My biggest suggestion: we should definitely prioritize having on-page Edit, History, and Discussion in the fixed toolbar too, if we can. As I am scrolling through an article, these are probably more important to have in-context access to than the user-related items (with the exception of notifications). This would also have the advantage of potentially letting us remove the section edit links, and just carry one prominent edit link in the toolbar, where ever you are on a page. -- Steven Walling, Product Manager https://wikimediafoundation.org/

I have no time to comment in detail right now, but let me just say that I'm surprised myself (as I usually don't expect much from such redesigns), but I actually really really like this one. The only thing that's jarring to me is that the section "Edit" links are both on the right and hidden until hovered; I think we should have no more than one of these two (and possibly neither). -- Matma Rex

Looks pretty cool! A couple quick notes: The section edit + dropdown menu only appear on hover; this feels very odd on a tablet as you have to actively tap to make it appear (on iPad) or it may not work at all (on Windows 8.1). I like the idea of 'edit' being in the fixed header that's consistently visible instead... On small screens like phones I've been seriously considering suggesting we show a fixed section header -- this sample article has relatively short sections but many are ....lllloooonnnngggg.... especially in really big articles. In a small window or on a smaller-screen tablet, those are going to easily spill larger than a screen height and it may feel odd to scroll up to find the current section-edit button. Once you scroll past the menu items, the sidebar seems to be wasted space especially on a small window. Any plans to have it collapse if the window/screen size is smaller? Snapping a browser window to half the screen is *really easy* to do on current Windows and Linux versions, and seems like something I'd expect people doing research to do. -- brion On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 8:46 PM, Brandon Harris <bharris(a)wikimedia.org>wrote;wrote: