[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #37661: A New Experience for Discovering, Installing, and Previewing Themes in the Customizer
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#37661: A New Experience for Discovering, Installing, and Previewing Themes in the
Customizer
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Reporter: celloexpressions | Owner: celloexpressions
Type: feature request | Status: assigned
Priority: high | Milestone: 4.7
Component: Customize | Version: 4.2
Severity: normal | Resolution:
Keywords: has-patch has- | Focuses: ui, accessibility,
screenshots needs-testing has- | javascript
user-testing ux-feedback |
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Comment (by karmatosed):
I took my husband through a user test today as wanted to see what it was
like from a basic user view point. It had some interesting results as you
can see here: [https://make.wordpress.org/design/2016/10/03/help-user-
test-the-new-themes-in-customizer-experience/#comment-24765].
A few takeaways that I think we need to consider:
- I think we found a bug. When you select Install after viewing the
details in window, you get on current patch hanging loading. It just goes
on and on, it does install but it never closes the window or stops
spinning.
- The various color spinners is tricky to work out and a bit of a weird UI
experience:
[[Image(https://cldup.com/ttkN_RKLJQ.png, 50%)]]
- Visually the grid of themes is very complex. That's something we should
be aware of and in future iterations consider giving more space to. For
those people with reading issues and visual problems, such a dense
experience may not be optimal.
- There was a lot of confusion over 'Install' and 'Install and Preview'. I
almost want to suggest we simply have 'Install' and 'Preview' as separate
links. Seeing someone struggle over this made me feel we have not got it
right currently.
- He commented directly we should be more direct with our language in what
we're asking users to do. That was interesting and an area we probably can
tighten.
My husband reported the experience wasn't very friendly. This to me says
we need to iterate on this, which I think we know. In the next release of
this we should look at refining this experience and make it delightful
over functional purely.
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Ticket URL: <https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/37661#comment:74>
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