Hi all,
I created some designs to add more detail about finding topics in Flow (search, ToC, filtering and sorting) based on your feedback (thanks for the feedback!).
I still want to iterate on the design for consistency and other improvements but I wanted to share them earlier. I published the designs at Commons https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flow-search-details.pdf and created a slide deck version https://docs.google.com/a/wikimedia.org/presentation/d/1DQabV3mjE9ReV9zs1qAi8u_A5560QEVX4aK95pc0Whs/edit?usp=sharing to allow comments in context.
With this and the former prototype I think we can start planning some research sessions to check with users which ideas work and which ones we need to focus on improving.
Feel free to provide any feedback.
Pau
On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 6:35 AM, Matthew Flaschen mflaschen@wikimedia.org wrote:
On 11/23/2014 08:08 AM, Pau Giner wrote:
In the current status of talk pages the ToC just appears at the beginning showing the full-titles, which takes most of the real state in long conversations and there is not an easy way to go back to it once you get immersed into the conversations. Do we have info on bugs/requests/comments from our users that illustrate more details about the navigation between topics and content?I agree having to scroll back to the top (or use the back functionality if you used the link before) to use the TOC is suboptimal, and one of the use cases the Flow TOC solves.
There may be bugs about this (on the old-style TOC), but if not, that's not indication that it works perfectly. People would not (yet) expect something like the Flow TOC on a regular talk page, since nothing else affixes to the top like that.
That doesn't mean that it's not useful, just that people wouldn't know to ask for it (even if they end up liking it).
Matt Flaschen
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