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Re: Making the home text visual nice - your help and opinion needed

Postby tomtom » Wed Jan 16, 2019 10:12 pm

Toby wrote:
Wed Jan 16, 2019 6:20 pm
idea from user GTC:


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Re: Making the home text visual nice - your help and opinion needed

Postby Toby » Wed Jan 16, 2019 10:57 pm

The question is now how does it look like on mobile view?

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Re: Making the home text visual nice - your help and opinion needed

Postby BWD » Wed Jan 16, 2019 11:10 pm

Whatever you do , DO NOT make it lower contrast than it is now, or it will be bad for mobile, bad for "more experienced users" (who might they be ;) ???), and simply harder to read, more often, for more readers.
Just a little touch more contrast would be nice, in fact.

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Re: Making the home text visual nice - your help and opinion needed

Postby Toby » Wed Jan 16, 2019 11:18 pm

GTC sent in an example for a mobile view.

Looks nice and clean...I just would use less space between the lines, I think it is a bit too much like this.

But in general you need to know, that we will see less topics on the home. This means you need to go thru all forums more to see the latest of all forums...I fear interesting stuff gets not seen if you basically use one forum.

Feedback wanted!

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Re: Making the home text visual nice - your help and opinion needed

Postby GTC » Thu Jan 17, 2019 12:34 am

Hi guys!

That screenshot is part of a prototype I sent to Toby.
In this link you can see how it would look like in desktop: https://marvelapp.com/acb4f11
It's interactive, so if you click at the screen you'll see some clickable areas.

What I have considered:

- Redesigned header (top bar). Why? Because blue logo over blue background is a NO-NO. A white background is better to improve scanability and contrast. Mixing the banners with the logo is not a good idea, so I moved them out of the header. This way both are more visible.
- It is a home page, so the simpler the better!. There is no need to show dozens of links. Each section has a max of 16 links.
- When a post title is too long it ends with 3 points (...). This way it only have 1 line.
- Increased banner size.
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Re: Making the home text visual nice - your help and opinion needed

Postby GTC » Thu Jan 17, 2019 12:40 am

Toby wrote:
Wed Jan 16, 2019 11:18 pm
GTC sent in an example for a mobile view.

Looks nice and clean...I just would use less space between the lines, I think it is a bit too much like this.

But in general you need to know, that we will see less topics on the home. This means you need to go thru all forums more to see the latest of all forums...I fear interesting stuff gets not seen if you basically use one forum.

Feedback wanted!

Thanks
Toby

The space between lines (line-height) has a reason.

1- Better scanability.

2- Improved user experience. In the current site I usually tab by error the link I want to open. Why? Because my finger is much bigger than the link height.
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Re: Making the home text visual nice - your help and opinion needed

Postby yomotha » Thu Jan 17, 2019 2:55 am

I spent 2 minutes on this, so take it for what it is.
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Basically, more spacing and some colour to differentiate the different topics and I made the font *slightly* smaller. Table as a layout isn't great either. Flexbox is pretty much supported in every browser now and gives you more flexible formatting options. My example doesn't use flexbox, but if you're making changes, I'd start using it.
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Re: Making the home text visual nice - your help and opinion needed

Postby downunder » Thu Jan 17, 2019 9:07 am

Hey,

what't the deal with "Thank you" ?

For sure it can be implemented with no username displayed, why would anyone be interested in who you 'thanked' to? ;) Plus, a percentage sign? What for? It's just cluttering the web page with no relevant data.

Thoughts?

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Re: Making the home text visual nice - your help and opinion needed

Postby robclaisse » Thu Jan 17, 2019 9:29 am

I think GTC's concepts are good and the extra whitespace around items definitely will help on mobile and maybe on desktop somewhere in between what you currently have and this less dense option is a good idea. It definitely makes it easier to quickly read but the big change that makes readability far far easier is the two column layout for forum | post subject. The current layout is quite hard to scan through quickly as the forum names are different lengths which for me makes it hard to quickly look through the list of subjects as they all start in different places. My only other suggestion would be to right align the forum names column, then as you eye scans down the subjects you can easily flick across to see the forum name.
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Re: Making the home text visual nice - your help and opinion needed

Postby Toby » Thu Jan 17, 2019 9:44 am

That’s an interesting idea with align the forum names to the right...I will create an example and show it here...let’s see what you guys think


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