Compact Personal Bar

Goal
The personal tools bar is long, and getting longer. Let's start thinking about how we would make this into a collapsed flyout control that takes up less space on screen but is easy to access, organized, and still has high priority things like notifications visible at all times. Some suggested things to accomplish While the space taken up by the personal bar is not particularly limited on all wikimedia content projects in the present UI, the issue will be much more pronounced with the rollout of the Winter/Fixed Header UI, which aims to reduce navigational elements for an increased focus on article content and primary actions like editing and discussion.
 * Top level access to notifications
 * Top level access to your watchlist
 * Create solution that works with touch interfaces and mouse based ones
 * Create consistency with Mobile roadmap of "personal drawer" on right side of web app for editor and contributory features

Code
Extension which this is a part of: Logging schema:
 * Git Repository
 * Extension:VectorBeta
 * m:Schema:PersonalBar

Planning

 * Trello - Design card
 * Trello - Research card

Landscape Audit

 * Facebook user flyout menu (image) (click + click behavior)
 * Linkedin user flyout menu (image) (hover+click behavior)
 * last.fm user flyout menu (image) (click+click behavior, with split menu)
 * twitter user flyout menu (image) (hover+click behavior)
 * Quora user flyout menu (image) (hover+click behavior)
 * Pinterest user flyout menu (image) (click+click behavior)
 * Instagram user flyout menu (image) (click+click behavior)

Analytics & Things to test

 * How do we arrive at the best possible order of items in the menu
 * How can we partner with Analytics team to come up with experiments where items are random or semi-random to discover the best arrangement?
 * How do we define "best" arrangement
 * matches current access to each destination in the current personal bar?
 * higher traffic to certain features (which?)
 * equal traffic to each destination?
 * Instrument current personal bar in a way that we can compare the Beta Feature numbers to the current version

Design
Proposed List order:

Inside flyout:
 * Username
 * Contributions
 * Watchlist (count )
 * Messages (count)
 * Notifications (count)
 * Other items added by extensions & gadgets
 * Preferences
 * Beta
 * Language
 * Privacy (WMF specific)
 * Help
 * Log out
 * Privacy (WMF specific)
 * Help
 * Log out
 * Log out
 * Log out

Outside of flyout (icons):
 * Watchlist
 * Messages / flyout
 * Notification / flyout

Design V2


Major Feedback:

Issue: Icon ordering and duplication Issue: confusing metaphors for some Icons
 * Icons outside of flyout order has been revised to reflect order inside of flyout
 * Icons have been move to right side of flyout to have consistent placement regardless of user name length
 * All Icons now have flyouts (icon = quick access to items, flyout = places on the site to go)
 * Icon with issues have been replaced
 * Consistent icon usage with other site features

Issue: light grey icons could look disabled
 * Proposed change to default Echo flyout to not include talk page messages to remove duplicate items within notifications and message flyouts.
 * Normal state icons have been darkened
 * Icons have hover and click states
 * "Constructive" blue (mediawiki.ui) color is used for active state of icons and "Progressive" green for notification counts

Alternative designs from community members
Rezonansowy's design from Winter's feedback page

Want to give feedback?
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