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tilboerner / laserchicken

RSS reader web application built on Rails
MIT License
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UX considerations #12

Open devsnd opened 11 years ago

devsnd commented 11 years ago

A few considerations:

laserchickenux

  1. I want to be able to click on the whole thing, instead of just the title to read the feed.
  2. What's the meaning of this button? I propose to use the Bootstrap symbols instead of relying on the browser for UTF-8 symbols.
  3. 5 Hours? since the Feed has been released? Do I need this information? Maybe I need to know the date, but certainly not the 100% accurate release time.
devsnd commented 11 years ago

The double >> made me think that I would jump to the very end of all feeds, and not right to the next one. laserchickenux_2

maybe just go with a single >

devsnd commented 11 years ago

a <p> within a <blockquote> is rendered in bold, which is very ugly.

devsnd commented 11 years ago

When clicking on the "next post" button, I'm always confused by who that post is written (I know, it is in the title...) So I'd like to have the favicons of the respective blog next to the authors name. laserchickenux_3

tilboerner commented 11 years ago

5 Hours? since the Feed has been released?

Currently, this refers to the "published" time of the newest entry, if it's contained in the feed XML. Otherwise, it falls back to the timestamp of the feed itself, or, if that's also missing, to the last time Laserchicken found new content. That's the best compromise between information quality and availability I could think of.

Do I need this information?

Although the system is not perfect, I feel that "recency" of subscribed feeds is relevant enough to be visible in some way -- and a sorting criterion as well, which makes visibility even more important. That whole premise is up for discussion, though.

Maybe I need to know the date, but certainly not the 100% accurate release time.

Assuming the relevant question here is that of age, there's a tag with fuzzy relative, rather than absolute, time. Makes good sense to me. It might be useful to get the absolute time on demand; mouseover would work, for mouse-based systems, anyway.

tilboerner commented 11 years ago

What's the meaning of this button? I propose to use the Bootstrap symbols instead of relying on the browser for UTF-8 symbols.

It's the mark as (un)seen button. I know the label is not very telling; I'd like it to be very short, so if you can think of a better symbolic description, I'd be very glad.

Icon resources:

How about icon-eye-open? Otherwise, would the word "seen" work? ("Read" would be better semantically, but its present has an unfortunate relationship with its past. Tense! ^^)

XORwell commented 11 years ago

fyi: laserchicken on mobile device (samsung galaxy s3)

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