I should also add some other interesting tid-bits, not necessarily associated 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 do NOT 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(a)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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