Which is more intuitive depends on your mental model. If you think of the
metadata panel as something that opens and closes, pressing up to bring it
up and pressing down to bring it down makes a lot of sense. If you think of
it as part of the page, that is currently out of view, it's the opposite.
The current layout of MediaViewer reinforces the first model, IMO, with the
image not scrolling when the metadata panel moves.
Either way, it's important to support both models. We currently do that by
flashing the panel controls if you press the wrong direction - I think
that's a good approach but the implementation is basically unnoticeable and
should be made much more prominent.
On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 12:42 PM, Erik Moeller <erik(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
I have to agree with Mark here - it took me a while to
discover the
up-arrow behavior, and I suspect users miss the metadata panel because
of this reversal of default direction.
I understand that it doesn't exactly behave as an incremental scroll
right now, but it's still confusing.
--
Erik Möller
VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation
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