[wp-testers] need visual clue on dashboard about expanding panels

Kirk M kmb42vt at gmail.com
Sun Nov 2 19:06:15 GMT 2008


Absolutely agree with this one (nice way of doing things, beanz). The 
Dashboard modules definitely need visual clues for expanding and 
collapsing of each module. Yes, I know that the Dashboard is still a 
work in progress but still...

On 11/2/2008 1:41 PM, beanz wrote:
> In preparing my lessons I have been letting some people loose through the
> beta. I wanted to see what they could intuit on their own and what needed
> explanation. No one picked up that the panels on the dashboard expanded.
> When the mouse cursor switched from arrow to 4 way arrow, they knew they
> could drag it and would. About half didn't even try to click on the panels
> to open them and the others clicked all over to see what would happen. If
> they hovered over one that had an edit option like I didn't observe any one
> having that problem with the side bar navigation. Although part of that is
> people are already familiar with sidebar menus, I think the fact that the
> menus had an arrow to the side let them know at a glance that the menu
> expanded. I think an arrow next to the title like Right Now would give them
> the same instant visual clue, "hey there is more here!"
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