Feeds UI: Tag color, polling, dashed, button text, style guide, separator

[Paul Everitt]

An assortment of minor points from the review with OSI yesterday:

1) Tag color. The color on tag events is red. They noted that red is usually used for warnings, which is the wrong connotation. Perhaps a different color.

2) "Polling". Nobody on the call got the right impression from that word. Perhaps "Auto-refresh" or "Auto-update".

3) Dashed underline on "timeago". Makes them think it's clickable. Override the style injected by the plugin to remove the dashed underlines.

4) Button text. The word "Feeds" isn't needed in the button. Also, need a third button, make them: "All", "My Communities", "My Content".

This also implies a changeover to jQuery UI buttongroups, e.g. "Radio button style toggle buttons set" at:

  http://www.filamentgroup.com/lab/styling_buttons_and_toolbars_with_the_jquery_ui_css_framework/

5) Style guide. They asked for a quick (under 5 minute) explanation of what colors and hues went with which actions. Tack it on as a comment on this ticket.

6) Visual separator. Tougher one, don't spend too much time on it. I explained the organizing principle that we emphasizing scanning first, reading second. The scanning is for the changes, the reading is for the details of the content that were changed. The changes are the primary emphasis, left-to-right, while the content details are de-emphasized and subordinate.

Once I explained that, Tom and the others understood, but they didn't get at first why things were laid out as they were. Jason asked if you could come up with some visual cue that prompted the idea that stuff on the left is primary and different than stuff on the right.

[Paul Everitt (paul-agendaless)]

My guess, around 3-4 hours.

[Chrissy Wainwright (chrissy)]

1) tag color - changed to orange
2) Currently reads "Auto Update"
3) border removed from timestamp
4) text changes made, "My Content" needs hooked up
5) There is no particular reason for which color goes with which action, so they can be changed if need be.
added item: green
joined/left community: yellow
tagged: orange
edited: purple
6) sent suggestions to Paul in e-mail

I have checked in most of these changes, I just need to work on changing the buttons to the jQuery UI

[Chrissy Wainwright (chrissy)]

4) decided on call to not change buttons to jQuery UI, since they match the changes from the rounded corners branch.
6) also decided to leave as-is

all other changes have been made.

[Paul Everitt (paul-agendaless)]

Assigned to Jim for testing after rollout.

[Paul Everitt (paul-agendaless)]

This got done and reviewed by OSI, but not released. I'll cheat a little and mark it released.