[wp-design] Expert Review

[Khaled Abou Alfa]

Don't hold back now Chris :).

I thought I'd reserve judgement until after I gave the document a good 
read. I take it Matt you paid for this right? If you did, damn man you 
must seriously love that bit of php code you call wordpress.

I was going to go into the word doc and give my comments there, but I'll 
keep it e-mail based.

 From the top:
*Information Architecture*
Mostly I can see where he's coming from, however I don't agree with the 
three tier heirarchy. Messy and unnecessary. To be completely honest 
I've not thought about the rest of the options as I've been 
concentrating my thoughts on the page we're on. Once we had a general 
view of how everything was going to fit then my attention would turn to 
the tabs and sub-tabs and what was on them. So I'm going to reserve my 
judgement on his proposed structure.

*Hyperlinks*
Seems Joen anticipated this with his little help link everywhere. Even 
better than a question mark it actually says help. I'm dreaming here, 
but rather than have it open up in another window it would be pretty 
cool if everything squeezed up and another panel appeared from the side 
with various help topics, like a firefox sidebar :). I think I'm taking 
the application ideology a bit too far, but I really think we should 
bring the help issues to becoming an integral part of the WP makeup.

The buttons have also been anticipated, although we're still reviewing 
what to do at the top navigation.

*Administration*
Neat little idea here. Just making things a bit less daunting for 
people, might be a good idea. Get that wp humour in there as well, 
brings the friendliness we talked about so much in the beginning.

*Writing*
Seems we've anticipated a few of these things. The little blue 
confirmation/status bar at the top will handle the 'talking' for actions 
taken. Makes sense. Maybe make it green for all systems go, etc.
Already sorted out his buttons/icons for adding and editing the post. 
Including the insert image button as well. Rather than a seperate upload 
section.

*Navigation Design*
Yeah whatever. No.

*Dashboard*
Yup I kind of agree, although probably not percentage wise or what he 
thinks needs to be shown etc. This area I agree needs some tweaking.

*Themes*
Don't see what he's driving at here.

*Gallery*
Nah, you want a gallery, there are more able programs out there that can 
deal with that that integrate easily into WP.


I wouldn't say it's rubbish. There are a few good points here which we 
can use I think. Of course not everything to be honest because 
somethings kind of miss the point. It's encouraging to see that we're 
generally on the right track, except that whole increase the font size 
of the nav bar, what the hell is that all about :)



Matthew Mullenweg wrote:

> This is a first draft, please read it over and tell me what you think.
>
>------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>_______________________________________________
>wp-design mailing list
>wp-design at lists.automattic.com
>http://lists.automattic.com/mailman/listinfo/wp-design
>  
>