Dear Wikipedia,
don’t do that.
Users act by habit. Yours is a search-based service. You moved the search box (the single most-used element of your design) from the center left to the top right. You have a fluid design. People love 24” or even 30” monitors.
Do the math.
It’s a wonder users haven’t started a riot yet. If I were a hardcore Wikipedia user, I’d have started one for sure.
I'm a pixel evocator with a temper. I love being productive. I recently declared war on creativity.
So far, I lose.
For this ranting, I’m gonna use Petros’s profile, because he’s a cool guy and I know that he started working on github some months ago. He also went on a trip to San Fransisco! How cool is that? I wanna see photos of that trip. How difficult can it be?
Dear Wikipedia,
don’t do that.
Users act by habit. Yours is a search-based service. You moved the search box (the single most-used element of your design) from the center left to the top right. You have a fluid design. People love 24” or even 30” monitors.
Do the math.
It’s a wonder users haven’t started a riot yet. If [...]
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7 comments on this post
Sif #1
17.May.10
At least it’s not applied on greek version (yet)
Ioannis Cherouvim #2
17.May.10
I think that hardcore wikipedia users use the browser search (opensearch – http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/search.html)
Sugar #3
17.May.10
@Ioannis
I use this particular search box all the time, hence my annoyance.
karpidis #4
17.May.10
@Sugar: I think by myself. I found it easy because is where usually my browser used to have search (now I have chrome so I have common address bar and search)
yrizos #5
17.May.10
also:
If you examine the source, you’ll see that the search box is now structurally near the end of the page instead of very near the top. I wonder how much hassle that adds for people browsing with alternative browsers (readers and such)…
Sugar #6
17.May.10
@yrizos Oh I never noticed this! Good find. Weird indeed, I wonder if there’s any kind of justification behind it.
sbosx #7
17.May.10
Based on the human-computer interaction the most correct position for the search is top right…
It was a big error for Wikipedia…
However at the beginning this was a problem, but now it’s better…