Problem/Motivation

For beta2, we did a great work about UX.

We have only 2 issues left for extra improvment:

However, there is still a part we are not happy about: the source selector for slots.

Proposed resolution

No solution proposed here, but just a call to open our mind: anything is possible, let's brainstorm, let's be crazy.

Some ideas:

  • Better naming for some sources
  • Change the order of sources and the grouping of sources
  • Slot the dropbutton in many dropbuttons, or a a dropbutton with normal buttons, or with only buttons
  • Add icons to sources, unicode character or inline SVG, declared in the plugin class's PHP attributes
  • ...

Comments

pdureau created an issue. See original summary.

pdureau’s picture

Title: [2.0.0-beta4] UX of source selector for slots » [2.0.0-beta5] UX of source selector for slots
Component: Code » User interface
pdureau’s picture

Title: [2.0.0-beta5] UX of source selector for slots » [2.0.0-rc1] UX of source selector for slots
Assigned: Unassigned » just_like_good_vibes
pdureau’s picture

Title: [2.0.0-rc1] UX of source selector for slots » [2.1] UX of source selector for slots

Postponed

grimreaper’s picture

Hi,

Like mentioned in #3495984-13: [2.0.0-rc2] Configuring a slot on Layout Builder make the page to redirect on the block form, I think it would be better to convert the dropdown into a select.

pdureau’s picture

Title: [2.1] UX of source selector for slots » [2.2.0] UX of source selector for slots
just_like_good_vibes’s picture

Status: Active » Postponed
Issue tags: +ui_patterns-next
just_like_good_vibes’s picture

Assigned: just_like_good_vibes » Unassigned