[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #21583: Improve discoverability and visual design of Screen Options and Help Panels
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#21583: Improve discoverability and visual design of Screen Options and Help Panels
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Reporter: chexee | Owner:
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone: 3.5
Component: Help/About | Version:
Severity: normal | Keywords: ui-feedback ux-feedback
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The Screen Options and Help panels are not very discoverable and, in part
because of this, aren't very helpful to our users.
Here are the problems with them right now:
* Most users are blind to these tabs.
* The labels and positioning give little indication as to what these tabs
actually do.
* For a lot of users, Help is not that helpful.
*They’re position in the admin creates yet another point of navigation for
users to be aware of (and per #1, most of them aren’t).
* The very wide container for text makes a lot of the help text difficult
to read.
Here are some proposals to improve the design and discoverability of these
tabs (related images and mockups are here:
http://make.wordpress.org/ui/2012/08/06/we-did-some-brainstorming-at-dev-
day-today/) :
* Adding icons to these tabs would (hopefully) both make these tabs more
visible and give a better indication as to what these tabs too.
* Moving these to the right side of the toolbar would give even more
context to what these do, as they would be grouped with other user-
specific settings.
* (6) The toolbar dropdown would allow for a slimmer content area for
better readability.
* (7) The slimmer content area would let us make screen options read like
a list for better scannability.
* (4/5) Putting the gear on the upper right would standardise with several
other web apps (Twitter, etc).
Related: #21326
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Ticket URL: <http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/21583>
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