Cycle 10.x: Usability

Last modified by Vincent Massol on 2024/02/26 17:58

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Description

Summary: Usability

10.x worse than 9.x in terms of usability issues in the 2017 - 2018 timeframe.

  • 17.38% (364 issues) of the issues open on XWiki Platform are reported by community members not associated with XWiki SAS. From these issues, only 3% (11 issues) are reported as usability issues
  • (Currently) Less usability issues reported (-48.72%) and resolved (-52.38%) compared to last cycle
    • We should encourage our community members to vote on the reported issues they want and also we should mark usability issues more consistently
  • Positive: See the Top Usability Improvements in 10.x

Community Requests

Note: there is still time to report issues until the end of the year and some conclusions might be affected.

External

(26-Nov-2018)

Total

(26-Nov-2018)

Platform Open Issues

  • Only 17.38% (364 issues) of the issues open on XWiki Platform are reported by external community members, while the majority of issues are reported by XWiki SAS employees.

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Platform Usability Open Issues

  • From the total of open issues, only 5% are marked as usability. From these, 10.28% (11 issues) are reported by external community members

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  • Majority of the usability issues are Improvements

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  • And target the Web - Templates & Resources component

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  • Here are the top voted usability issues in the two sections: external and total reporters.

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Cycle Analysis

Note: there is still time to report issues until the end of the year and some conclusions might be affected.

10.x Timeframe

(01-Jan-2018 - 26-Nov-2018)

9.x Timeframe

(01-Jan-2017 - 31-Dec-2017)

Reported Usability issues

  • We have a significant decrease of -48.72% percent of reported issues compared to last year.

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Resolved Usability issues

  • We have a significant decrease of -52.38% percent of resolved issues compared to last year.

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Top Usability Improvements

10.x Timeframe

(01-Jan-2018 - 26-Nov-2018)

9.x Timeframe

(01-Jan-2017 - 31-Dec-2017)

Top Usability Improvements in 10.x

1: Page and User pickers with auto-suggestion

The auto-suggestion of pages feature has been added in multiple input and even when creating links in WYSIWYG. This way users don't need to know how to write page references and can use the suggests. 

Users and groups have a new compact display that shows in view mode the avatar followed by the user / group name. In edit mode the selected users / groups are shown in-line. 

2: Macro editing improvements

The macro content can now be edited inline with the WYSIWYG editor, for the box, info, warning, error and figure macros.

3: Edit/Rename/Move protection

As with delete and rename operations, if a user tries to modify a page belonging to an Extension, a warning will be displayed to explain that it's very risky and it should be avoided. Users are now warned when they make refactoring operations (delete, move or rename) in pages that contain used XClass. 

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4: Visible Save

Make the "Save" button more visible, since in some cases it's not always visible when editing and people need to scroll to find it.

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5: Navigation Panel Configuration

Navigation Panel focuses more on your own content pages. Administrators can configure the pages that can be excluded from the tree.

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6: Menu in Administration

Integrate Menu app inside Administration, in the "Look&Feel" section, because the creation of the navigation is an administrative activity.

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Top Usability Improvements in 9.x

Read the Highlights of the XWiki 9.x Cycle 

1: Attachments preview

Preview of attachments are displayed in multiple places inside the wiki: docextra tab, page index, etc.

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2: Protection against accidental deletion

System and Extension pages are now protected against accidental deletion. When you try to delete such pages, XWiki will now ask you to confirm the operation, and list all concerned pages.

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3: Administration reorganisation

Most of the administration sections have been moved to existing or new groups. Administration categories can now be dynamically created. You can filter for keywords inside Administration. We make sure the styling is consistent across administrative sections.

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