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Date: 26 Apr 2013 08:46
Subject: Re: [Design] Left nav/right nav
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From: Jon Robson <jdlrobson@gmail.com>
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Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2013 08:46:08 +0100
Subject: Re: [Design] Left nav/right nav
Raging hatred is for having 2 places for menus. History has shown us (user testing) that secondary menus are not discoverable. People always look in the hamburger first (or don't even find that!!) That said a user button makes sense if it takes a user to a profile page.
I'm mostly worried about moving things from the left menu to another menu and having a second menu. Somehow even though login, watch list and uploads belong to a user they are a site activity in some ways and I'd still prefer to see them in the left menu. To me a profile would best serve access to user page, stats and user talk page but not incorporate the other things. Having 2 menus also makes the user have to think is that in x menu or y menu?
"I don't understand. When I press our current hamburger, the page moves to the right and my finger is over the Home button..." That's what 24 hrs without sleep does to you. :) I can't articulate what it is about the Facebook app and wiki right menu prototype I don't like but this is not in. Just something feels unnatural about it. In terms of fb it could be the inconsistency...on private messages hitting info hides the button and leaves hamburger in place but doesn't do this for news feed. It may however be the fact the right user menu is just not how I use Facebook and contains features I see as useless. The search on the left menu in Facebook serves the exact same purpose.
I'd really push us to leave the left menu as it is (with some visual separation) and think of the user button as more of a profile page then a place to find features. Where watch star goes is another question.
In terms of fixed positioning the only way to do this reliably and nicely (and then only if JavaScript is enabled) is to use something like iscroll and reimplement native browser scrolling.
That's more like it ;)
Also, I'd squeeze in a few most recent notifications in there when we have Echo.
On 04/25/2013 12:11 PM, Maryana Pinchuk wrote:
You're right, Vibha; a picture is worth a thousand words :)
Jon, ignoring the specific elements of what's in the "me" menu (all just placeholders at this point), does my scribbling below make more sense conceptually? Despite the "nav" in the title, the story card actually leaves implementation pretty open: https://mingle.corp.wikimedia.org/projects/mobile/cards/579. I can clarify in the title of the card and the A.C. that this should be an overlay, not a nav. Does that address some of your concerns?
On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 11:32 AM, Vibha Bamba <vbamba@wikimedia.org> wrote:
At this point we should be doing this at a whiteboard.There are some legitimate concerns but text is hardly a medium to improve ideas =]
On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 11:21 AM, Maryana Pinchuk <mpinchuk@wikimedia.org> wrote:
_______________________________________________On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 10:39 AM, Jon Robson <jrobson@wikimedia.org> wrote:
I'm beginning to exhibit raging hatred of the right nav concept...
Firstly.. Ergg. two settings is confusing (site and user) - they
should be the same page and there is no reason why they can't be. It
would be great if when logged in the settings page morphed from device
specific to user specific. Would be great to be able to activate alpha
on all my devices.
In terms of a right nav, the more I think about it and having played
with a prototype I knocked up, the more I think a right nav is bad.
Although it seems to be becoming an established pattern it seems like
an easy option that in my opinion is badly implemented. We can do
better and should lead by example. For one I never touch the Facebook
one... it just doesn't come natural. I also don't like the idea of 2
menus. I wonder if we could envision 2 stacked menus that can be
toggled between and persist when selected.
To quote http://www.upassoc.org/upa_publications/jus/2011august/faulkner2.html
"... Kingsburg and Andre carried out two studies with 16 users and
found in both of their studies that selection from a left-hand menu
was faster than from a right-hand menu (2004). However, their research
also showed that selections were best done from the same panel,
whether that was on the right or left. Thus it is better to have a
single design, either on the left or the right, rather than a mixed
navigational method that requires the user to select from both left
and right panels (Kingsburg & Andre, 2004). This is hardly surprising
and is both predicted and supported by Fitts’ Law. (1954)."
The thing that bugs me most is that when you move your finger over the
left hamburger button and press it the page moves to the left. Your
finger is still above the button. This doesn't apply to the right
menu. Your finger is now above something else. This to me is very
jarry and always feels icky.
It still leaves the question of where things such as watch star, talk
page link, edit, move and delete buttons go.
The bottom would make sense for an app, but position fixed is buggy in
the majority of current mobile browsers and we will need a fallback of
some sort.
Is it just the "nav" part that bothers you, and not so much the "right" and "my stuff" part? What if we had a little person icon to the right of the search bar, and tapping that opened an overlay with pretty visualizations of your recent editing and uploading activity, as well as links to your watchlist and talk page? That's what I ultimately want to work toward; in my mind, the nav part was always just a stepping stone, but maybe we don't actually need that stepping stone and can just go directly to (sneakily) beginning work on a totally new, totally rad mobile userspace :)
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