On 1 February 2013 02:41, Matthew Flaschen mflaschen@wikimedia.org wrote:
On 01/31/2013 08:28 PM, Oliver Keyes wrote:
So, having played around and tested this: I'm really confused by the X in the top right and how it fits into common interaction models. Here are the mental-and-physical steps I went through to reach a state of confusion:
I know where you're coming from. We gave this a lot of thought (https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43723 and https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=44123 ) among other discussion.
I note that Munaf's comments at
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43723#c2 predict my experience pretty accurately. Munaf, have you been reading my thoughts? I'll have to get me one o'them tin hats...
We may have gotten it right. Or, it may still need work. We didn't do structured user-testing outside our group as far as I know (that could be quite useful).
That model (End tour) is fine...but it still confused the heck out of me, and kind of irritated me. My mind interprets an X in the top right, as said, with 'kill this'.
Part of the reason X doesn't kill it for good is that people might accidentally leave the tour. But there's clearly a risk of frustration.
It seems to make more sense to either remove X entirely, or, if it represents a valid use case, move that use case to something different and have the X represent "kill this" (as is standard in a lot of other interfaces).
We did discuss removing the X at some point.
Matt Flaschen
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