Sorry if I'm unclear, but yes I fully understand.
I felt that her description somewhat misrepresented the purpose of constructive in relation to progressive.
Essentially, I read her description as saying constructive was simply a final step, when in fact it's designed to provide the user a hint that something will be created - no matter the step.
- Trevor
On Wednesday, October 21, 2015, Jonathan Morgan jmorgan@wikimedia.org wrote:
On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 6:31 PM, Trevor Parscal <tparscal@wikimedia.org javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','tparscal@wikimedia.org');> wrote:
I would just clarify that constructive buttons are used to indicate an action creates something, rather than just modifying it. Similarly, we use destructive buttons to indicate the inverse, that something is actually being removed. Constructive and destructive don't have anything in particular to do with multi-step processes, only what the process does.
Hi Trevor,
May was talking about constructive vs. PROGRESSIVE buttons here. Did you misread her email, or are you making a secondary point? It's unclear from your message.
Best, Jonathan
- Trevor
On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 6:14 PM, May Tee-Galloway < mgalloway@wikimedia.org javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','mgalloway@wikimedia.org');> wrote:
There is a conversation going on here about consolidating constructive and progressive buttons: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T110555
I want to find out if any of you have used these buttons in your interface and have done any testing with your users to see if they understand the difference between the two. Also, if you have used it in other ways that has been helpful to your users, chime in!
Progressive (blue) conveys to the user that they are starting or continuing a multi-step process. Constructive (green) conveys to the user they are completing a single or multi-step process. In most case Constructive color shows the user what will happen. In others it is feedback that the action has completed. For example, thanking a user, adding a page to a watch list.
-- Related discussion about button consolidation: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T110565
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