Sure this easy to change, but I would prefer to focus more effort on the bigger picture right now which is to continue to define our standards instead of changing small items. That way we create a much stronger sense of consistency across the board. I think this is a good item to look at to spark a bigger discussion around all of our system notifications/tooltips. -- Lindsey Smith Mobile UI/UX Designer Wikimedia Foundation On Thursday, May 24, 2012 at 3:48 PM, Brandon Harris wrote: Okay, so here's something that can be fixed. Go here: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:UploadWizard Scroll to the bottom. Click the "Skip this step in the future" checkbox. Note the tooltip that appears. It's awful. It's just plain horrible. Why? * It's the same color as the background. * the border color is nigh-invisible. * the pokey bit is too shallow (which makes it invisible to people with bad vision). I want to make a better one. Any thoughts, or does anyone want to take this? --- Brandon Harris, Senior Designer, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate _______________________________________________ Design mailing list Design(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/design _______________________________________________ Design mailing list Design(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/design

Sure this easy to change, but I would prefer to focus more effort on the bigger picture right now which is to continue to define our standards instead of changing small items. That way we create a much stronger sense of consistency across the board. I think this is a good item to look at to spark a bigger discussion around all of our system notifications/tooltips.

-- Lindsey Smith Mobile UI/UX Designer Wikimedia Foundation On Thursday, May 24, 2012 at 3:48 PM, Brandon Harris wrote: Okay, so here's something that can be fixed. Go here: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:UploadWizard Scroll to the bottom. Click the "Skip this step in the future" checkbox. Note the tooltip that appears. It's awful. It's just plain horrible. Why? * It's the same color as the background. * the border color is nigh-invisible. * the pokey bit is too shallow (which makes it invisible to people with bad vision). I want to make a better one. Any thoughts, or does anyone want to take this? --- Brandon Harris, Senior Designer, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate _______________________________________________ Design mailing list Design(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/design _______________________________________________ Design mailing list Design(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/design