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[Guilherme Salgado <salgado@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi there,

So, this week we realized the view would look quite repetitive if we
implemented it as the mockup[1] because the target and priority is the
same for all work items of a given spec, and there are usually a lot
more work items per spec than what we had in the mockup (2 work items).
For the "aggregated bugs" line this is not a problem because the
target/priority of them will vary.

In an attempt to avoid that I tried a different layout using one <li>
for every spec and within each of them a table containing the work items
for that spec.  That way we can show only the description, assignee and
status in the table for spec work items.  For bugs we keep the
target/priority, though.  However, this layout (shown in upcoming3.png)
makes it harder to quickly scan the page, so I'm not sure it's so much
better as I initially thought.

Given that, I went back to the original design and tried to tweak it a
bit to see if I could make the repetition less annoying or avoid it
completely.  On upcoming2.png I just used a bigger font for the
Blueprint row, together with a separate background colour for the work
item rows, but I'd very much prefer to avoid this repetition somehow, so
I also tried another variant (upcoming1.png) in which the
target/priority cells are empty for work items.  It does the job of
avoiding the repetition, but looks a bit ugly to me.

I'd appreciate any feedback on these screenshots, specially if you have
ideas to minimise/avoid the issues I mentioned above.

I'm also thinking it might be worth trying to get some user testing done
on these two different layouts, but I wouldn't know where to start.  I'm
hoping somebody from the Launchpad team can help with that, but if not
I'll just get my branch rolled out to staging and ask users which one
they'd prefer.

[1] https://dev.launchpad.net/Projects/WorkItems

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Guilherme Salgado <https://launchpad.net/~salgado>

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