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[Martin Pool <mbp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm not sure if the Bugs homepage (eg
<https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/zookeepr>) is going to get refreshed
for 3.0, but if it is I wanted to throw out a few thoughts.

One that's been in the back of my mind for a while is that the page
has no flow: a common thing, possibly the most common thing here, is
to want to file a new bug or discover that the thing you're looking
for is a dupe.   The eye movement for this is all wrong: there's a
text field at the top with some buttons next to it and one tends to
naturally see that as the place to type - but it's not.  The thing you
actually want is 'file a bug' but that's down in the middle bottom,
surely some of the lowest-rent real estate, next to a similarly-shaped
decoy button.  It's true it's a red button but that's not quite
enough, and it's somewhat hidden next to some big bold blue text.

So in the redesign I'd like people to at least consider having one
text field that can be used to either search for or file a bug.

That would cut out one entirely unnecessary page load of
<https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/zookeepr/+filebug> and also possibly
make the page mentally easier.

The other thing would be to just take a really hard look at how much
low-value data is on this page: the piechart, the Key contacts, the
fact there are 0 bugs fixed elsewhere and zero CVE bugs.  It's not
quite zero-value but it is something that is given far too much space
at the moment.

-- 
Martin <http://launchpad.net/~mbp/>