On Monday I began writing a couple of Special
pages. The purpose of this
was to develop a proof of concept that could generate a style guide from
our CSS files.
Would love to get this production ready and use this going forward to
ensure we always have a live reference we can refer to...
On 5 Nov 2013 19:28, "Jared Zimmerman" <jared.zimmerman(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
yes.
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On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 7:22 PM, Steven Walling <swalling(a)wikimedia.org>wrote;wrote:
>
> On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 7:01 PM, Jared Zimmerman <
> jared.zimmerman(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
>
>> Thanks for this summary S, the "living style guide" mentioned in
>>
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/UX_standardization will include not
>> only the visual styling of agora controls but best practices for using
>> them. e.g. things like order of buttons (primary CTA rightmost) and what
>> types of buttons should be disabled when invalid input is detected (places
>> where a post would result in an error) as well as when to use different
>> styles of buttons.
>>
>
> Can the UX team please write the copy for these best practices now,
> rather than later? We could really use the text accompaniment now, as we
> begin to build and test the revisions to mediawiki.ui.
>
> For developers, having simple explanation of the intended patterns
> will ease the transition to a new mediawiki.ui look. For product managers,
> we'll be able to help make sure that our individual products conform to the
> general style guide.
>
> Flow is not the only new product that is starting to conform to parts
> of the new mediawiki.ui spec. For Growth team projects like anonymous
> editor acquisition, onboarding, and article creation, Pau is already
> producing mockups that incorporate elements of the new design. If you can
> produce a single page guide with these best practices you describe, they
> can be used now and incorporated in to the more interactive living style
> guide later.
>
> Steven
>
>
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