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My UI/UX sugesttions
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80% less information. Perfect.
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That layout is quite fancy and I’ve seen sites employing such visuals in other places such as the message sidebar. Chinese/Taiwanese sites are notorious for doing this because of the short “words” (in terms of width).
The drawback of this approach is that it does not play nicely with 2 or 4+ metrics. In a default setup of just the Core you would have just “Reputation” and “Points”. If you add the forum and the calendar you now have 4 metrics that you would like to show. Add in the gallery and you suddenly have to put in 5.
So you need to be able to configure it as an admin to display what you want. Oh, and it needs to somehow updates itself when one thing is removed. What happens if the user has no posts, but 5 gallery images? Show that counter instead because it has some value unlike “0 posts”? How should it work with communities that do not put an emphasis on post counters and want to hide it. So you now need to make it possible to disable one of those counters.
You suddenly end up with a metric ton of extra logic and configurable options for such a tiny feature that is basically just some eye candy. This is what makes designing such components hard because of all the edge cases and different requirements you have to take into account.
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The IPS has done something similar, perhaps even more information included than in my proposal. I understand that this involves a lot of work; however, this is how the majority of modern websites look. What is WoltLab's plan? It seems to me that gradually introducing changes is much less painful than making significant changes in a short period.
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So you need to be able to configure it as an admin to display what you want. Oh, and it needs to somehow updates itself when one thing is removed. What happens if the user has no posts, but 5 gallery images? Show that counter instead because it has some value unlike “0 posts”? How should it work with communities that do not put an emphasis on post counters and want to hide it. So you now need to make it possible to disable one of those counters.
You suddenly end up with a metric ton of extra logic and configurable options for such a tiny feature that is basically just some eye candy. This is what makes designing such components hard because of all the edge cases and different requirements you have to take into account.
But what’s the difference to the current state?
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As I suppose, Alexander Ebert is a backend developer, and rarely does a backend programmer enjoy delving into frontend development. If WoltLab doesn't have a FrontEnd Developer on staff, in my opinion, they should consider hiring one, even if it's on a part-time basis.
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Playing a bit with Grafidea 's example. It seems that it is possible to increase the information and, moreover, to do it in a modular way.
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This is a very specific design for the standard design and could make it very difficult to create your own design. Less is definitely more here. The desired visualisation can also already be achieved.
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While this looks quite nice, these overlays really shouldn't be too high. Otherwise, they will only become even more annoying than overlays already are. The goal should still be to provide a compact overview of relevant information, not to display the complete profile. I would argue that these overlays already contain too much information in the current implementation. I absolutely welcome a visual modernization. But preferably in conjunction with a reduction, not further bloating.
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