Somebody asked me the other day about getting screenshots of the Firefox OS
app but I've forgotten who - please ping me and I'll get those to you!
-- brion
It'll probably be a while before we start work on the new native Wikipedia
apps, but it's worth thinking about design now. :) I took some time today
to throw together a quick mockup of an updated main app UI, based on what
we've been doing for the mobile web site:
http://leuksman.com/misc/wikipedia-app-mockup/framed.html
Source on github: https://github.com/brion/wikipedia-app-mockup
Screen sizes for iPhones, iPads, and Nexus phone and tablet devices are
switchable so you can see how the UI fits to different devices, and you can
rotate between portrait and landscape mode. You can click through to
articles, but note that section collapsing and search are not fully
implemented -- it's a mockup, not a real app. ;)
First I wanted to check if this sort of mockup is a useful tool for
visualizing for you guys. :) I figure it is, and we can make other future
mockups similarly.
Second, just getting some feedback on ideas in the current mockup:
* this copies the "hamburger" menu from the mobile web site for general-app
options. Don't worry too much about the contents of the menus at this stage.
* a similar page options menu on the right side is opened from an icon
*inside* the content area
* I've replaced the search field with the branded Wikipedia logo and a
search *icon* which would trigger full-screen search (or a popout dialog on
tablets, perhaps)
* Back and forward buttons are placed next to the search, I'm still not
sure about that.
I'm also considering doing back/forward through left/right swipes to free
up icon space, but this might not be discoverable. (We could stick
back/forward in page options or app menu maybe).
-- brion
A list you can now subscribe to:
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Discussion of initiatives that support new users and experienced editors
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engagement experiments"). So, for instance, right now they're talking
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figure that they'll be talking about Flow (the user-to-user
communication & subscription & commenting system that).
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Sumana Harihareswara
Engineering Community Manager
Wikimedia Foundation