Hi team,

Here is a roundup of comments from discussion with design team and a few other people. In theory the idea makes sense as a continuous idea (Dan came up with this, recognizing that he forgets to invoke the TOC even though he is aware that it exists)

1. It feels somewhat unpredictable. As a user I'm not sure when this thing will come out because I can't develop a pattern around it. It seems to behave differently during up-scroll and down-scroll

-When you pause scrolling to grab it, it sometimes doesn't come out or disappears and it feels like you can't get a hold of it. (This makes sense, because we don't want it to persist if a user has found a section they want to read. So the delay for dismiss may need to go up a little)

- As a user I expect it to come out all the way or not at all when you predict that I need this menu. 

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Some users brought up that this is an uncommon pattern. While that doesnt bother me at all, I do believe we want it to feel right i.e predictable

I think we have a great start here but we have some decisions to make as a team:

-We can iterate on the speed and timing and test it

-We can wait to see how the TOC onboarding does and tackle this after that

Dan, we can discuss this next week after the full text search meeting.

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Vibha Bamba

Senior Designer | WMF Design