Talk:Glaucus

Here's a quickie testable demo for the drop-down menus & the language hot area: http://svn.wikimedia.org/svnroot/mediawiki/trunk/mockups/glaucus-quick/index.html

Load that up on your Android or iPhone and see how it behaves... has been tested on an iPod Touch. There's no icons or anything, but space for them -- the Wikipedia and 'You' menus are filled out and open but are non-functional. No page content or anything. --brion 02:26, 9 February 2012 (UTC)

Minification
Thanks for thinking about what a minimalist UI could look like. Some thoughts:


 * I do think we'll want to keep a large, visible search field by default, at least until/unless we have evidence that collapsing it doesn't decrease search volume. Having a large area to tap here, which is clearly meant for typing, seems to me to be the most intuitive way to help people navigate.


 * I'd love to play with more ideas for a simple, lightweight menu, because we'll definitely need one. I like the ideas in Glaucus, but I think we'll want to experiment with ways to slim them down.
 * Simple lightweight indicator that the "W" is in fact a menu. Some of the Google apps use a tiny arrow for that, others use horizontal lines, but either way, if this is the main "action button", than suggesting a flow to the user would make sense to me.
 * Simple menu layout. Path and other apps use slide-in menus that maximize horizontal and vertical space, with a large tapping area for each menu item, and no icons. There's also a clear indicator here that a menu item is followed by other actions (the arrow), or that it's a direct action ("Sign Out").

--Eloquence (talk) 19:36, 22 February 2012 (UTC)