Re:YC's Safe annotated by lawyers, founders, and investors o...
by jacobheller on Friday December 13, 2013 @02:46PM
(#6902480)
This is awesome -- thank you for taking the time to write out this thoughtful feedback.
We just removed some of the animations, specifically the stuff zooming up and down the right-hand column.
We'll work through some of these other thoughts as well. For what it's worth, you should be able to click the text to close the annotation mode, and soon you'll be able to hit esc to close it.
One funny thing about the original design, where the text was all the way on the left, was that quite a few people complained that the text should be default in the middle. We're learning quickly that there will always be some trade-offs.
Re:YC's Safe annotated by lawyers, founders, and investors o...
by argumentum on Saturday December 14, 2013 @04:52AM
(#6905250)
Hey jake, great job. I personally prefer left-justfied for this type of document (vs a blog, per se). Just my opinion, you might want to a/b test it.
My main feedback is that lots of the animation is distracting rather than helpful:
• A comment I want to click to expand, moves away as soon as I move to it. (Stable click targets are important!)
• The 'Add tag' control flies around from place to place (displacing the comment I want to see)... but there's no real benefit to thinking of it as "one button that moves" rather than "a per-paragraph button that appears when needed". So the animation is sending attention-grabbing meaning that is unhelpful noise.
• Unclear why "1 more" appears when there's still plenty of space to include the comment author details; also a bit disorienting that clicking either the described comment, or the "n more", expands both. (That might be a good choice, when there's space, but the hinting – including the hover-highlighting – is all suggestive that a click applies to the single comment or 'more' targeted.)
* Don't like having to find and click 'close' after each expansion before being able to see all other annotations again. (I get why you might want it on busy pages, but here it's just more tiny-click-targets and modes to wrestle with before moving to next annotation.)
• The shifting of the entire text sideways on each annotation expand/close is very visually distracting. It'd be better to just keep the main column in the leftmost position all the time.
• It's disorienting for the 1st click on a name to expand a comment, but then the second click (on the same-styled name) to open another webpage (rather than collapse).