CUNY Academic Commons

Michael, now that I've moved the Docs interface around a little bit (with top level tabs that make the navigation a bit clearer), would you mind taking another look to see if you have suggestions that are more in keeping with the new design?

Hi Boone - Now that I've used Buddy Docs for awhile, I'm kind of used to the Save button now. I like Michael's suggestion of putting an additional save button at the top of the screen - not sure how difficult that would be. But maybe the simplest solution would be to make it bold so it stands out a little. What do others think?

I really like that solution, Chris. The blue makes the button much more prominent. Nice work!

I like it too!

I like it too, but it's inconsistent. While it's true that the blue matches the color of primary buttons in the WP dashboard, most Commons users don't use the WP dashboard. IMO we should think carefully about how to roll out these kinds of style changes consistently, or not at all.

Thoughts?

Boone, I agree with you. It is inconsistent. I started looking around the site and realized that there are some inconsistencies in other places as well.
I agree that things should be as consistent as possible and so it seems like this merits a larger look at the buttons on the site.

I'm going to look around some more tomorrow and take some screenshots and create a new ticket for button changes. I may also see if it makes sense to have any kinds of categories for buttons (probably not) an for highlighting things with background color in a way that is different from buttons (probably so).

Most likely that new ticket will also take care of this once it's resolved.

Thanks, all. I agree that consistency is important, and Chris, I appreciate your work on this.

Boone, Chris recently agreed to the title of "User Experience Designer" for the Commons, so this work will be right in line with that and will produce some nice benefits for the site.

Looking forward to your report, Chris.