[p2pu-dev] placement of "participate" and "follow" buttons

Alison Jean Cole alisonjean.cole at gmail.com
Wed Jun 8 17:26:55 UTC 2011


Like above or below avatar.
Prefer two colors as well for buttons.

ALISON
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On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 9:36 AM, Jessica Ledbetter <
jessica at jessicaledbetter.com> wrote:

> Could be 3 but really probably maybe? just 2. Totally open for discussion.
>
> If closed, Clone shows instead of Participate. It doesn't right now but
> could. There's always an option of creating a copy of a group when creating
> a new group.
>
> I tried them in Spanish and it went alright. We can also have language
> specific CSS to help with sizing but so far the default was alright.
>
> Underneath idea but here are my concerns already:
> * Too heavy using the school color
> * Could really clash using the school color
>
> Using the school color makes it tie in with the school more though
>
> My eye definitely goes there with those complementary colors though! ;)
> Schools can pick their colors. Example of another color:
> http://new.p2pu.org/en/schools/school-of-the-mathematical-future/
>
>
>
> 2011/6/8 João Antonio de Menezes Neto <tonyhomes at gmail.com>
>
>> I remember that there are about 3 buttons, right? (Clone, Follow,
>> Participate). I guess the sidebar would get too colorful if they have 3
>> different colors.
>> Agreed with Jessica about the problem on putting them on the heading and
>> also there's another detail which is localization, maybe these buttons will
>> get different sizes with different languages (in Portuguese for instance
>> though, the difference isn't that important: Clonar, Seguir, Participar).
>>
>> =]
>>
>> João
>>
>> 2011/6/8 Jessy Kate Schingler <jessy at jessykate.com>
>>
>>> I like two colors to reinforce that the two actions are distinct.
>>>
>>> --sent from my mobile
>>> On Jun 8, 2011 9:49 AM, "Jessica Ledbetter" <
>>> jessica at jessicaledbetter.com> wrote:
>>> > For what it's worth, I had them below and it looked fine but moved them
>>> up
>>> > into the graphic per request.
>>> >
>>> > In the breadcrumbs won't work because of very long course/activity
>>> names.
>>> > They were there too and made it to a commit even :)
>>> >
>>> > No, they don't have to be different colors. I was trying to draw
>>> attention
>>> > to participate (active) vs follow ( cool color, not active).
>>> >
>>> > There's a subtle (probably doesn't work in all browsers) glow too to
>>> help
>>> > with images. I hadn't seen the semantic one though so didn't test on
>>> that.
>>> >
>>> > 2011/6/8 João Antonio de Menezes Neto <tonyhomes at gmail.com>
>>> >
>>> >> how about right below the course avatar?
>>> >> also, do these buttons need to have different colors?
>>> >>
>>> >> 2011/6/8 Philipp Schmidt <phi.schmidt at gmail.com>
>>> >>
>>> >>> IMHO overlaying the buttons on top of the image doesn't work so well.
>>> >>> A lot of courses use text in their images, and it looks messy with
>>> the
>>> >>> buttons on top.
>>> >>>
>>> >>> Two suggestions for alternative button placement attached. I am not a
>>> >>> designer, so consider these no more than a nudge to come up with a
>>> >>> good solution ;-)
>>> >>>
>>> >>> P
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