Citron Designs

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Templates

Latest Design

Older Design

Motivation

• Reduce the confusion factor that infoboxes and templates have on new users.
• Provide access to article contents that doesn't require navigating through large volumes of template text.
• Provide an editing interface for template information, contents, and fields that is suitable for advanced and new editors.

Approach

• Collapse templates within the editor to allow easier access to an articles contents.
• Maintain current method of editing templates (by expansion) while also introducing an easier method for templates that can afford such an interface (by GUI, dialog).
• Create new apis for template authors to be able to control how their template editing interface works.

Left Navigation

Motivation

• Learn how the left navigation is used quantitatively.
• Use this information to simplify and reorganize the left navigation bar.

Approach

• Nimish's click tracking data is available [here | here]
• Make highest used links always visible
• Categorize and collapse less frequently visited links.

Babaco Fixes

Dialogs

Below the Editor

Motivation

• Clean up all of the stuff below the editor that everyone has hard time with.
• Make user flow more explicit

Approach

• Organize and group links, messages intuitively
• Consolidate redundant links, messages
• Remove duplicate links and messages where applicable
• Collapse information that is advanced and visually overhelming
• Repeat "Publish" and "Cancel" buttons on the top and bottom of the editor.
• Give greater emphasis to the "Publish" button
• See Also: Side by Side Preview