RE: Steemit Home Page Redesign Part 2
Cool! I like the idea of doing iterations based on feedback like this. Here are just some thoughts looking at your draft and also some points to share about my own opinion about the current UI.
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If I am browsing Trending, looking at my own blog, or reading someone else's article, where do I find my "Feed" in your UI? A current lack to the steem UI, imo, is the fact that the feed is probably the most used tab for content discovery but still it doesn't have a button that actually tells a user that's what it is (apart from the House you see with the text "Feed" once you click your image) the other way to get to your feed is hidden behind the steemit, beta logo, which is confusing. Is it intuitive that the steemit logo would take you to your Home Feed? Wouldn't most new users expect that to take you to some kind of front page? I don't unserstand why there isn't a button called "My feed" together with "My Wallet" and "My blog" in the links tab on the right.
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I think the tags in your draft takes up too much space and receives too much attention. But I do like the idea of "favourite tags". How about an option to "filter by tags" where you have the list of tags as usual (which a search tag funtion as well to help you find different tags and quickly see how many posts have been made with that tag) where you can check a box to only display posts made with that tag also in your feed. (Let's say I follow a lot of science people on steemit as well as just contacts in general, how can I quickly browse the science content posted only by the people I follow?)
Part 1
Agreed i had an issue not understanding that “my feed” wasn’t a tab. It felt disconnective. I haven’t started revising the “blog” page yet but agreed i would want “my feed” to be a tab in the home page. For me having used Steemit for 60 days the tabs have little value. That said as a user we should make them usable. I think to your point if we add in a my feed tab or use that one as the default logged in user tab we solve that problem. I think I’d also want your feedback on what tabs we should really have that assist the user to discover content.? For me hot and trending are similar. Perhaps the tabs should read
My feed | trending | discover | onboarding
Something that illustrates to a user they want to access the content. I think a smart filter of whatever you upvote could be a new sort as well like “curated” if it was smart enough to data sort articles i like.
Part 2
This is a cool feature. We could do that. It’d be a series of selections and toggles. I agree the tags take up a fair amount of space and should be hidden in a collapsible accordion or something only exposing the tags you have favorited.
For example i think i could select science from tags then check a box either (see all) or (favorites) assuming my favorites have tagged their content science, i would then have a cta button that allows me to filter the my feed list to favorites science.
I’ll work this feature in. We’d create a widget in the tags section that allows you to sort based on tag and favorites.
the logo should take you to the Home Page that we are working on now as a logged in user. not to the blog page. but your point is right. the default once i select the logo should be home page > default "my feed" not trending etc.