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• Launchpad Entry: https://blueprints.launchpad.net/loco-directory/+spec/sub-nav-usability

• Created: 2011-02-20

• Contributors: mhall119, chrisjohnston, ronnie.vd.c

• Sites affected: http://loco.ubuntu.com

Summary

The navigation between the pages is not very usable at the moment. For example: It is hard to go to your own team page. Also the sub-navigation is very inconsistent and changes on every page. There is no logic!

Release Note

Rationale

Consistent UIs are intuitive UIs.

User stories

Assumptions

Design Rules

• Only links to pages on LD should be navigation links
  • No external links
  • No links to feeds (rss/ical/etc)
• Sub-nav links must be relevant to the page contents
• Action links (those that affect page content) should be in-page.
• Sub-nav should be consistent on multiple pages (page groups)

Proposed Rules

• "Add" action links should be above the list or table they will add to

Needed Rules

• Where should Edit/Delete/Copy links be placed?
• Where should feed links be placed?
• Should in-page action links be short text, icons, or both?
• How should external links be styled to indicate they are external?
• No sub-nav on main page
• Rule needed for capitalization. What in nav menus gets caps and what doesn't?

Implementation

• Separate search and sub-nav as on ubuntu.com to add the ability to remove the sub-nav on main page.

UI Changes

• New "top-nav" section above "main-nav" for login/logout and current user links
• Separate sub-nav and search areas.

Sub-menu

Teams: My Teams | Approved Teams | All Teams | Join a Team | Create a Team (first 3 views (from less to much) and then 2 informative pages about changing team membership)

Code Changes

Migration

Should be none.

Test/Demo Plan

Unresolved issues

Comments

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