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Sort-E-Mails function hard to find
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Two of my test subjects had problems finding the function that allows to sort the E-Mails. Both of them clicked the filter at first. One of them even tried with the ''Actions''-button afterwards.

Possible Solution

Placing the ''Options''-button next to the filter, since the participants intuitively look for it there.

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CarlosHR renamed this task from Sorting-E-Mails Function Hard to Find to Sorting-E-Mails function hard to find.Feb 1 2018, 12:44 PM
CarlosHR renamed this task from Sorting-E-Mails function hard to find to Sort-E-Mails function hard to find.
CarlosHR created this task.
Nikolai subscribed.Feb 1 2018, 2:10 PM

See also T3586
The question is here if placing it next to filter is a good solution, because then you have to very similar functions next to each other. But I basically had the same idea. Do you need one function more then the other, e.g. "sort" more then "filter"?

Nikolai mentioned this in T3586: Filter Function can be difficult to find/identify.Feb 1 2018, 2:13 PM
Laura subscribed.Feb 1 2018, 4:35 PM

@CarlosHR
See T3556! I think this is already a good suggestion of how to solve the problem. So maybe we could continue the discussion there

bohlender subscribed.Feb 5 2018, 2:35 PM

Would this still work on a tiny phone screen?

Laura added a comment.Feb 5 2018, 11:31 PM

@bohlender
Yes, I guess so... (see screenshot)

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bohlender moved this task from Backlog to Ready for Alec on the UX Seminar WS17 board.Feb 6 2018, 1:47 PM
bohlender added a subscriber: machniak.

@machniak What do you think?

bohlender assigned this task to machniak.Feb 6 2018, 1:48 PM
machniak added a comment.Feb 12 2018, 3:11 PM

The additional bar makes it too clattered. I also think that sorting order change is not something you do often.

Laura added a comment.EditedFeb 15 2018, 10:30 AM

@machniak

I think, having a "thin"/small sorting bar might be better than having nothing... For the desktop version I definitely think you could implement this (see T3556)!

If you don't think it's a good idea, then my idea would be to add a small drop-down-arrow next to the word "inbox" (or however the name of the file), which then opens the options "sort by name", "sort by date" etc. directly.

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bohlender lowered the priority of this task from 40 to Low.Aug 12 2019, 10:01 AM
bohlender moved this task from Ready for Alec to Backlog on the UX Seminar WS17 board.