Ideas for inbox dropdown
Robert Guthrie
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Ok so I really wanted to jam on some ideas to fix notifications - removing normal thread activity into what I'm kinda into calling "inbox" (after being dissatisfied with "unread discussions")
In this concept we keep everything the same except we add a new dropdown next to notifications called inbox.
It is a easy way to find unread threads. The advantage is all the 'commented in' and 'started a new discussion' notifications in the notifications dropdown would disappear. Leaving just likes, mentions, proposal events?, and membership events in the notifications.
https://loomio.mybalsamiq.com/projects/newactivitydropdown/inbox%20dropdown
Whaddya think? I'm most into the bottom right design. The top left might be a page.. This is essentially the "Daily Activity Summary" with dropdown (or mobile friendly) formatting and only unread content.
Robert Guthrie Sun 12 May 2013 9:46AM
Here is another revision..
https://loomio.mybalsamiq.com/projects/newactivitydropdown/rev2
This features an x button to mark as read and the line will dissolve away.
Richard D. Bartlett Sun 12 May 2013 10:04AM
@robertguthrie I think double-line text in the index could be good, it's just a not particularly good at the moment.
Current double-line is:
[discussion title] or [proposal title]
[group name]
Promoting the group name up to be a header means you can lose it from the index, so you could do:
[discussion title]
[decision title]
I think that will help reinforce the mental model that decisions live inside discussions.
Love your work on this buddy. x
Matthew Bartlett Sun 12 May 2013 8:39PM
@jessedoud might be helpful on the CSS front, @robertguthrie
Robert Guthrie Mon 13 May 2013 1:11AM
Rich I'm not sure that a decision must be embedded in a discussion.
Currently it's not clear to us (the app) if the user has read the discussion, the decision or both when they load a discussion show page.
I wonder if the user feels like they've read everything correctly when they look at a discussion page.
Anyway.. this design requires the read or dismiss all the new comments and vote on all the proposals.
This makes being the perfect Loomio user easy.
If you could configure which groups were attached to your inbox it would be pretty sweet.
Robert Guthrie Mon 13 May 2013 1:15AM
In contrast to 'inbox' behaviour - the notifications drop down currently marks everything as read when you click it. Meaning you must mentally track if you have read all your new notification items.
Robert Guthrie Mon 13 May 2013 1:35AM
Updated the latest mockup:
https://loomio.mybalsamiq.com/projects/newactivitydropdown/rev2
Jon Lemmon Mon 13 May 2013 1:59AM
@robertguthrie personally I'd really prefer if if discussions and decisions are nested in the inbox. We've tried the other way around and it's a total pain. You end up reading the same discussion twice.
Jon Lemmon Mon 13 May 2013 2:00AM
@robertguthrie ah i see, didn't read all of the text inside your mockup... having a think now...
Richard D. Bartlett · Sun 12 May 2013 6:20AM
@robertguthrie re: skills transfer, I've been thinking it might be a nice habit for developers to get into, when they complete a feature, to give a quick run-down to the rest of the team summarising what they've learnt.
E.g. doing the translation project taught me lots about I18n. It would be pretty easy for me to post up a couple of great resources and give a ten minute workshop to teach all the other devs the basics. We could do the same with CSS?