So the Fedora Community navigation is going to need some rethinking. I haven't yet written up the usability test results but there was definitely a lot of confusion shown through the tests - and we weren't really 100% happy with it to start: - The left nav tabs take up precious screen real estate, yet they are top-level global nav and thus are not used as often as other navigation. - It seemed the majority of users in the usability tests did not even note the tabs going across the top. - Many users in the tests also did not realize the right sidebar secondary nav (1) was even there (2) if they saw it, they didn't think it was related to the center content (eg nav for package details) At FUDcon in Toronto this past weekend I showed the navigation to Diana and we had a discussion about it, and she showed me some UI she has worked on that I think is a great inspiration for making the Fedora Community navigation a whole lot better to work with. On the FUDbus back home I started trying some of her ideas -on the left, the nav bar could slideback and slide out on demand, and I tried making the right navbar look more 'navigation-y' rather than like it is little ads or something not relevant to the content. I've attached my inkscape mocks (I can't uplaod them to the wiki at the moment because of the outage) - what do you think? (WARNING: these are way rough and were done on a bus ;-) ) ~m
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