Jared Zimmerman \\ Director of User Experience \\ Wikimedia Foundation
: On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 7:31 PM, Jon Robson <jrobson@wikimedia.org> wrote:
We currently have a goal to push our nearby feature to stable next week.
Your feedback on the current page would thus be greatly appreciated:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Nearby
In particular please focus on these outstanding concerns remembering
this is a first pass and we should focus on the most essential things:
1) Copy text - in particular is it clear that certain pages need
photos and how to do that?
Jared — in list view the call to action is clear, but perhaps too long? will this string length be a problem in german?
how about "Contribute image for location"
2) Refreshing the list of nearby results - is the icon choice correct
and how is the user experience?
Jared — I think its ok, but could be improved, right now it just says "refresh" to me, not update my location, If May or I have some time today perhaps we can get you a new asset, when is you code submission target?
On first load of the page, the error, needs to have location enabled browser and javascript enabled still shows, it would be great to not show that on first load…
3) Is the preview useful? (the preview is mobile only and activated
when you click on an article) - does the experience break without it?
(to get an idea of how it might work without try the desktop version
at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Nearby or click "Read this
article in full" before reading the preview and click back button to
get back to the nearby view
Jared — The preview is ok but the image upload call to action isn't on it, which is a BIG problem for people who followed the link on the previous screen, few things that i think should change
- for pages with images, include the thumbnail from the list view on the preview page
-
For pages without images, include the contribute photo on the preview page
4) Any styling tweaks you'd recommend (especially with respect to the
article preview)?
Jared — add Read article in full link to both the bottom and top of the preview, reduce the margins (to 0px?) for images on the preview page
Some feedback to the list page
- for imperial units countries use ft rather than m for distance to location
- say "XX ft away"
- make sure the row heights are the same, currently they fluctuate
- for distance to location, can you say which direction they are? 150 ft north? if not "away" is fine, but giving a direction might be nice.
One way to increase confidence in the accuracy of the location would be to show the current location of the user on a map, here are two other apps for some inspiration of a mini map on top of a list view…
http://cl.ly/P5cF &
http://cl.ly/P6DF
Thanks for your feedback - all much appreciated!
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