Thoughts along the way:
== One ==
http://fab.wmflabs.org/maniphest/task/create/ (imagine that the "Points"
field is not there).
What if I don't have this link?
I tried click the + at the top of the screen. This gave me a menu that says: Create New: Maniphest Task Pholio Mock Paste
As some people already complained, I don't know what Maniphest, Pholio and Paste are. (Come to think of it, I guess that Paste is kinda like Pastebin, but that's because I'm a developer.)
I quite like the big "Report a Bug" button on the main screen of Bugzilla, although I'd be the first to admit that the screen that appears after click it is pretty awful.
== Two == The Create New Task screen.
First thought: It looks a lot like web-based email around 2003! :)
The above is not a bad thing. Email composition is fairly simple and common and the design is OK.
*However*, since it is so similar to email, it's all the more confusing when you get to the details. In email, the usual order of fields is To, Cc, Subject, Body. The order here is Title (subject), CC (there's no "To"), Projects (What am I supposed to write there?), Points (OK, you asked to ignore that), Description (Body).
I can get used to it, but if it's for more general public, then you must take into account that lots of people don't bother reading field labels and get very confused.
== Three == I tried typing "MediaWiki" in projects and got an auto-completion with an umbrella icon. "Why umbrella?", I thought. And then I got it :)
== Four == Another thought: I searched for the attachment icon. I found it, but I am not sure that it would be easy to find for all users. I might be subjective, thought, because I upload a lot of screenshots and mileage may vary for other users.
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2014-08-27 10:18 GMT+03:00 Quim Gil qgil@wikimedia.org:
Hi,
Users of the future Wikimedia Phabricator will have a very simple and straightforward interface to create and edit tasks. Bugzilla's UI was one of the top complaints from new/casual users, and we can fix this in Phabricator easily. Currently we are testing this setup in fab.wmflabs.org , where you can see an example:
http://fab.wmflabs.org/maniphest/task/create/ (imagine that the "Points" field is not there).
Advanced users needing to prioritize tasks, assign them to someone, and resolve them can join the Triagers team in order to get the additional permissions:
http://fab.wmflabs.org/project/view/74/
We are still fine tuning this process at http://fab.wmflabs.org/T64 -- your feedback is welcome.
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