UX: Change 'Return to pages and collections' button icon
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Mahara |
Fix Released
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Medium
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Dianne Tennent |
Bug Description
We currently have a back button that allows people to return back to the 'Pages and collections' page. The icon is an arrow pointing to the left to indicate "go back".
This button is displayed when they are viewing a page in edit mode, but not in display mode.
If I have navigated to the second page of a collection, the meaning of this icon changes. It does not take me "back" to the previous screen, but it takes me back to the 'Pages and collections' page.
A solution to this would be to change the icon from a back arrow, to a books icon. The image of books is commonly used to represent a library, or a place where all pages/artefects
This can be further reinforced by renaming the 'Pages and collections' page to "Portfolio Library" as in this bug report here: https:/
Furthermore, having this books/return icon available in all modes for collections and portfolios would improve the usability significantly. As the user will spend a lot of time navigating through pages and artefacts to manage their learning, it makes sense to give them the option to 'return home' at any point in their journey (User control and freedom).
(An even better fix could be to include the books icon in the navbar, so that the user has quick, one-click access to their portfolio library from any view in the site.)
Link to fontawesome books icon: https:/
description: | updated |
Changed in mahara: | |
status: | Triaged → Confirmed |
assignee: | nobody → Dianne Tennent (dianne-t) |
summary: |
- UX: 'Return to pages and collections' button + UX: Change 'Return to pages and collections' button icon |
Changed in mahara: | |
milestone: | none → 22.10.0 |
importance: | Undecided → Medium |
status: | Confirmed → Fix Committed |
tags: | added: manualupdate |
Changed in mahara: | |
status: | Fix Committed → Fix Released |
There are a few different things in here that we can address separately:
1. Change the icon for 'Return to pages and collections' -> Can be discussed.
2. Make the 'Return to pages and collections' button also available in 'Display' mode. -> Can be discussed. It wasn't done so that we don't overload the 'Display' mode. I'd suggest to add it to the options under the 'More options' button.
3. Change 'Pages and collections' -> suggestion on bug #1946291