The article creation form is intimidating
I just did some UX test on the blog with someone who already has a blog (at Wordpress.com) but had never been exposed to Ideascube before.
I asked her to just create a new blog post, as if it were her blog.
She felt overwhelmed by the amount of fields to fill up, and told me she didn't know where to start.
I explained to her that the left column were just metadata about the article, and that the right column was her actual article.
She said she didn't realize that, she only saw a big lump of fields all competing for her attention.
I think this could get better with a combination of several things:
- removing some fields (#758 (closed), #759)
- making the left column look more like an additional sidebar. A few random ideas, which might all be terrible:
- maybe move it to the right?
- maybe make it less large?
- maybe make it a different background color?
- maybe add a separator between the columns?
- moving some fields to the main column:
- @mgautierfr already moves the summary to the main column in !744 (merged), I agree with his move
- I think we should also move the title to the main column
- I think the main column should show, in this order: title, text, summary (optional) as that makes for a better writing flow
And then there are probably a few other things which could improve this flow, and some of the above might bad ideas. I'm not a designer.