Magnolia 6 User Experience

Date

05 Dec 2018

Attendees

• Anja von Gunten
• and a big group

Main Discussion:

• Intro by Anja:
  • functional-wise and structure-wise, the header has changed completely:
    
    • functionality of trinity icons detached (i.e. tasks and messages)
    • find bar is the center piece of the UI
    • favourites are gone for now
  • within apps:
    • usage pattern kept the same as in M5, steep learning curve
    • look & feel completely changed

• Starting M6 will bring you directly to find bar results
• Experienced users might expect to have the app launcher when logging in

• Find bar results will be personalised to the users' preference, thus it should go first
  • currently it is based on the search input only, in future the user's preferences can be calculated based on e.g. opening of apps
  • it's currently based on all users of the instance, in future it will be based on individual users
• Find bar is a navigation tool as well, once powerusers are adapted, it will be very powerful
• Toggle between the two

• Suggestion to include filters in the search term, e.g. regex patterns or “pages:asia” to find all pages containing asia

• Search term examples: 
• “open pages app”
• “find iran tour”

• Once you are in an app and you hit the find bar, the search is limited to the content within that app - that filter can be easily removed on top
• Suggestions: search over all, but keep the context on top (e.g. if dinar is initiated from stories, show stories 
• Kept in one search filter for simplicity

• Suggestions: Make titles take less space
• Also: titles and tab labels are duplicates

• How to have a personalised Admin Central?
• e.g. placeholder for customer logos, instances, any relevant information
• CSS styling

• Compared to M5, user name is not shown anywhere

• Field descriptions are not rendered currently (they will come back)

• The grey bar brings you back to the previously open app

• Suggestion: if working on a page and referenced content need to be updated, how to get there fast? And how to get back quickly?

• Available icons are limited (available on Magnolia docs), so custom apps can use svg-files (to be documented)

• Dark mode: currently Magnolia recommends browser plugins ...
• Secret Santa brings a nostalgic mode: ./magnolia/admincentral-m5 ;-)