Forwarding to mobile-l to keep this conversation public.
In short, yes. The ToC peekout was a cool idea, but really it looks more
like a bug than anything else. But, it's okay that it hasn't worked. The
Mobile Apps Team just championed rapid development and experimentation, and
that makes us awesome! \o/
I think going with the ToC onboarding for now is fine. The remaining work
there is to get it to a state that we're happy with. Then we can see how
people respond once that's rolled out, and use that to gate whether we want
to further experiment with other ideas.
Thanks,
Dan
On 9 September 2014 16:09, Vibha Bamba <vbamba(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
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
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Dan Garry
Associate Product Manager, Mobile Apps
Wikimedia Foundation