Loomio
Thu 5 Sep 2019 6:34AM

General Layout and Navigation : colour coding of 3 types of content

JJ Joachim Jacob Public Seen by 57

Users should easily navigate through Loomio. How do we achieve this?

I see the interface divided into three panes.

Left pane: overview groups. Navigate them, manage them, see overview of a group in one glance (number of replies, number of decision tools, others?).

Middle pane: threads and discussion pane. Main pane. Navigate threads, and once inside a threads, easily go to another thread. Allow adding to the discussion easily, quickly interact, allow filtering/searching text or users.

Right pane: the Facilitation pane. Navigate all outstanding decisions to be made, allow ordering them, allow searching. Clicking on a decision facilitation tool shows in the middle pane to accompanying discussion.

Ideally, in my world, every section (Groups, Discussion and Facilitation Tools) would get its own colour for easily navigating. The colour coding would give also guidance on the smartphone.

RG

Robert Guthrie Thu 5 Sep 2019 8:36PM

Hi @Joachim Jacob - Partago team thanks for this, great to hear your thinking.

Have you tried the Loomio 2.0 interface? You can turn it on (here)

We're merging facilitation tools into the main thread and using the right panel as a timeline for thread navigation.

JJ

Joachim Jacob Fri 6 Sep 2019 7:30AM

Hi @Rob Guthrie Thanks - yes, I am amazed by the Loomio 2.0 interface. And also the speed of development 馃槈

Actually, my insights were inspired by the Loomio 2.0 interface 馃

My 5 cents to extend my thinking a bit further:

Conceptually Discussion and Facilitation are two different things. You can see this also in the main screen, where open Facilitation tools are on top, and Discussions are below. Seemingly disconnected.

When a discussion comes to a conclusion, Facilitation tools jump into existence. Being able to look at the options on the table, and to scroll through the discussion in the meanwhile to form your opinion is important. That's why I would suggest to have it in a separate pane.

Anyway, if this design principle is already concluded in the dev team, no worries. Just want to share this.