Dashboard’s Right now / WordPress interface elements

Published: On Tuesday, January 6, 2009

Dmitry at Usability Post started quite interesting discussion to his article A Slip in the WordPress 2.7 Dashboard Interface in which he lightly critisized Right now box, one of the new items on 2.7's improved dashboard. He correctly pointed out, that separation between rows but not columns can easily lead to a misinterpretation of contained information. His thought was confirmed by optinions of a few commenters who indeed were confused by actual graphical implementation of the box.

2.7 Right Now box design

Dmitry's proposal to modification

Jon Phillips' design

Marcus' design

My :-)

Well, since I think that every information except pending comments count is more than dispensable, I would prefer radical reduction.

Comments

  1. 1.  Luke wrote: On February 18., 2009 comment number 1

    Another point here: Some of us using WP as a CMS will NEVER want comments open, but we'd love to know of draft posts still pending at the „Right Now“ level…

I quit working with WordPress, comments are closed. My plugins will not be updated any more – at least not by me. Feel free to modify my source codes though… Also I am not able to provide support, sorry. –Kahi