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- start with some usability feedback
- Kathy: sketching the resources screen
- 2 of 5 people didn't know that they could add folders
- Harriet: we get a lot of support questions about how to create folders. People know they can do this, but have a hard time seeing how
- Harriet: testing of YUI button
- 3 tasks: creating folder, and a new file, rename a folder
- 5 experienced Sakai users, but not particularly tech-y.
- no one had any difficulty using the buttons, no surprise expressed
- feedback generally positive
- suggestions included size (e.g. text too small, button too large)
- haven't tried it with people that were new to Sakai
- people at CARET were less positive, because it's not a standard UI component
- but the average person doesn't seem to cope well with the standard dropdown - the standard here hasn't been very effective
- also accessibility issues
- there's so much text on the page, that people weren't really noticing the multiple add buttons on the screen
- another thing we need to look at - we have two new contexts for adding content
- Gonzalo's suggestion that we simplify those and not display extra information
- new create files and folders pages (can be seen on http://nightly2.sakaiproject.org)
- Should be ready for comments by Monday or Tuesday
- some comments for now:
- add another file is nice
- not clear what 'continue' would do
- another button on that same screen that would provide access to properties if you wanted
- Harriet: it would be good if Kathy and I could sketch out some ideas, since I can see tradeoffs
- Jim: the pattern of a separation of metadata and content may have more to do with the implementation than the user
- Kathy: why would encouraging that separation be helpful to the user?
- it can be a bit overwhelming to have to think about both things at once
- ACTION ITEM:
- HT, KM and G to do page by page designs for JE to follow
- so where are we with the YUI buttons?
- it comes down to how accessible they are
- Kathy and Harriet will still do some usability testing
- after that they will discuss with UI-DG
- ACTION ITEM:
- Jim will follow up with licensing DG about YUI license
- Jim: if we end up not going with the buttons, the fallback position will be the dropdowns you see on nightly
- may want to separate menus, or think about whether we should keep them together
- can we style the dropdowns somehow to improve them?