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.
On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 5:57 PM, Maryana Pinchuk <mpinchuk(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
On Apr 24, 2013, at 2:37 PM, Juliusz Gonera
<jgonera(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
My only concern about the right nav is that
we might be moving too many things there. I think that people might be confused by not
seeing e.g. Settings after tapping the hamburger (the mingle card mentions it in the right
nav). Also, settings are currently tied to the device, not the user.
I had the same hesitation with settings, actually. I think you're right that the way
we use settings currently is more like "site-wide settings" than "my
personal preferences" and thus belongs in the left nav. But at some future date, we
could also add personal user preferences to the right nav :)