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⚠️ THIS REPO IS DEPRECATED ⚠️ A set of design principles and standards for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
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Adding Hero and Featured content module to side nav #385

Closed jenn-franklin closed 8 years ago

jenn-franklin commented 8 years ago

Additions

Added Hero and Featured content module to nav

Changes

Changed page title from "Heroes" to "Hero"

Review

@Scotchester

Screenshots

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Scotchester commented 8 years ago

Should the titles not be plural? The other pages use plural titles.

jenn-franklin commented 8 years ago

Yah, I went back and forth with this. I'll bring it up with the UX team as they're redoing the content guidelines.

I noticed singular vs. plural because we had "Heroes" but then "Featured content module." And so it felt strange to have one singular and one plural in the nav. Then I started thinking about how there is only one type of hero now. Originally, we thought there would be a hero and a super hero (or something like that). But now we only have one type, and then you can customize it (with things like including a CTA or not, etc.). Versus, with something like buttons there are variations, such as the large primary button. But then I felt like my reasoning was whack. Because then should a category like "Color" technically be "Colors?" And what exactly does "variation" mean?

I also realized that writing the content of the page as plural doesn't really make sense. So, "Featured content modules (FCMs) function to highlight a specific piece of content within a page." FCM is plural but page is singular. And within a single page, you will only have one FCM. And you only have one FCM design available for use.

So, I probably should leave this to UX people. Perhaps for the time being, I'll actually make the opposite change: Keep as "Heroes" and change to "Featured content modules." This way the content as written currently in the plural form on the pages matches the titles. And we can give it a little more thought as the new guidelines are being written.

Update to pull request coming momentarily.

Scotchester commented 8 years ago

Sounds good. I was just observing that, in this section at least, all the pages are plural: buttons, expandables, form fields, etc.

But yeah, I think the content overhaul will probably take care of it :)

Scotchester commented 8 years ago

Your hero.md file is still kicking around. Mind deleting that before we merge?

jenn-franklin commented 8 years ago

Oh whoops gross. I deleted it!

benguhin commented 8 years ago

Agreed that it's best to deal with all of the things at once in the content overhaul. For now, you can also go with "Hero sections," which sounds a lot less like a TV show

Scotchester commented 8 years ago

@benguhin :laughing: Not a bad suggestion, but I'm going to go ahead and merge now :)

jenn-franklin commented 8 years ago

Haha @benguhin :smile: Love it. Thanks, @Scotchester!