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Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2013 10:57:09 -0800
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Subject: Re: plugins.cordova.io: UX redesign
From: Jesse <purplecabbage@gmail.com>
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Looks good Joni.  Great tone, character and feel.
Some of the utilitarian pieces I think need fine tuning.

Re: 1. ( opinions, which may be misguided )
- Search prominence is great, but I am confused about the difference
between what the 'Find Plugins' link at the top does, and the search box.
- Contribute, and Utilize seem to be given too much prominence here, and
I'm not crazy about the word 'Utilize'.  Maybe 'Get Started' with subs of
'Publish a plugin' and 'Install a plugin' ... ?
- Plugin listing by ID seems overly geeky, can't we use the Name field?

Re: 2.
- The Version column does not seem very useful, can we include latest
published date, or is there some author information?

Re: 3
- Perfect!
- It would be awesome if we could add some sort of image/logo to the
publish process, as we are going to be stuck with a very texty site
otherwise.


I think the nuget site is a very good example of a site based on doing a
very similar thing.
http://www.nuget.org/
Here is what knockoutjs looks like there:
http://www.nuget.org/packages/knockoutjs/


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On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 8:17 AM, Max Woghiren <maxw@chromium.org> wrote:

> Looks great indeed!
>
>
> On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 10:26 PM, Joni Rustulka <joni@adobe.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I'm Joni. I work at Adobe as a UX designer on the PhoneGap team, and I
> > have recently thrown some time at redesigning the
> > http://plugins.cordova.io site. I'm looking for feedback prior to
> > implementation - your thoughts are appreciated.
> >
> > The main screens that have been reworked are as follows:
> >
> >
> >   1.  Home (http://cl.ly/image/2n3l1N0Z0g0w)
> > The primary goal for the site is to help users find the plugins they
> need.
> > As such, the main focus is on search/findability.
> >
> >   2.  Search Results (http://cl.ly/image/0c3X3T1E1L0j)
> > Upon search for a plugin, the user is returned results. The user can
> > filter to include only desired platforms (
> http://cl.ly/image/3W2f321I211r),
> > and the results table can be sorted by number of downloads, or plugin ID.
> >
> >   3.  Plugin Details (http://cl.ly/image/2n1p2s3E0a2t)
> > The details screen intends to provide all of the necessary information on
> > a plugin.
> > ** From what I understand, one piece of information that may be missing
> > from this screen is "Installation Instructions". This being, config.xml
> > feature tags. Is this something that you guys plan to automate, or should
> > we be telling plugin authors to put this information in their Read Me?
> > Please advise.
> >
> > Further, we do intend to make this a responsive site - so it will be
> > easily viewed on smaller screen sizes.
> >
> > Thanks for your input,
> > -joni
> >
> >
> > PS - big thanks and kudos to Yohei for putting together the pluggy robot!
> >
> >
> >
>

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