Brandon, I think running two more short tests, one where the article tools are only in the fixed header, and one where they are only in the article (fixed header remains personal tools) would be illuminating.
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On Sat, Mar 15, 2014 at 1:20 PM, Brandon Harris bharris@wikimedia.orgwrote:
I should also add some other interesting tid-bits, not necessarilyassociated with Winter:
* Everyone gets baffled by article talk page templates. * Few people actually recognize that there are"discussions" happening. Most indicate that they expect a different type of discussion. * A few people didn't know that there were tables of contents. * One person said that he didn't even know that we had accounts, and yet also indicated that he noticed we moved the search from the *left sidebar* to the top. That's odd: you have to have an account to use Monobook.
I also wonder if we won't be served by running a test where we doNOT goof with the personal tools section on scroll and do NOT add page action icons to the header, to see if that helps with discoverability of the user menu after scroll. That could be a very short test.
On Mar 15, 2014, at 1:12 PM, Brandon Harris bharris@wikimedia.org wrote:
I have run two sets of user tests with Winter to determine the usability
of in-header page action icons and whether or not users can easily recognize their personal tools menu and the search box, especially after scrolling in the page. The results are not encouraging for the in-header icons.
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