Hi,
A user in the Hebrew Wikipedia pointed out to me that it's uncomfortable to her that after removing a page from the watchlist it is still displayed there. It is gone after refreshing the watchlist, but she says that for her it would make more sense if it disappeared immediately.
This is a design question more than a bug, so I'm asking here: what do the designers think?
I can see pros and cons in both ways and I wonder how was the current behavior decided: design and user testing or only the developers' intuition?
Thank you!
-- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com “We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore
/me raises hand
I put the watch star there so I can say it was developers intuition. My reasoning was it should be easy to undo the action. If we were to delete the row from the watchlist, there is no easy way to get it back.
It's also tied to the page watchstar. On a page that watch star doesn't disappear so this is consistent with that.
I only did it this way as that was the easiest way to implement this but I'm sure there are better ways - e.g. maybe showing a link to undo on the notification instead.
On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 11:22 PM, Amir E. Aharoni amir.aharoni@mail.huji.ac.il wrote:
Hi,
A user in the Hebrew Wikipedia pointed out to me that it's uncomfortable to her that after removing a page from the watchlist it is still displayed there. It is gone after refreshing the watchlist, but she says that for her it would make more sense if it disappeared immediately.
This is a design question more than a bug, so I'm asking here: what do the designers think?
I can see pros and cons in both ways and I wonder how was the current behavior decided: design and user testing or only the developers' intuition?
Thank you!
-- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com “We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore
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If we want to go fancy we can do something like what the Gmail app does when archiving a thread via a swipe in the thread list: leave a placeholder item with an 'undo' button, then collapse it later such as when scrolling down for more mails.
-- brion
On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 10:08 AM, Jon Robson jdlrobson@gmail.com wrote:
/me raises hand
I put the watch star there so I can say it was developers intuition. My reasoning was it should be easy to undo the action. If we were to delete the row from the watchlist, there is no easy way to get it back.
It's also tied to the page watchstar. On a page that watch star doesn't disappear so this is consistent with that.
I only did it this way as that was the easiest way to implement this but I'm sure there are better ways - e.g. maybe showing a link to undo on the notification instead.
On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 11:22 PM, Amir E. Aharoni amir.aharoni@mail.huji.ac.il wrote:
Hi,
A user in the Hebrew Wikipedia pointed out to me that it's uncomfortable
to
her that after removing a page from the watchlist it is still displayed there. It is gone after refreshing the watchlist, but she says that for
her
it would make more sense if it disappeared immediately.
This is a design question more than a bug, so I'm asking here: what do
the
designers think?
I can see pros and cons in both ways and I wonder how was the current behavior decided: design and user testing or only the developers'
intuition?
Thank you!
-- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com “We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore
Mobile-l mailing list Mobile-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l
-- Jon Robson
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Brion Vibber, 28/08/2014 18:39:
If we want to go fancy we can do something like what the Gmail app does when archiving a thread via a swipe in the thread list: leave a placeholder item with an 'undo' button, then collapse it later such as when scrolling down for more mails.
In case that's what's going on, this sort of enhancement should really not be developed as platform-specific.
Nemo