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So a while back I did an open card sort for people to help us reorganize the Account Settings tabs. The project never went anywhere, because there was zero agreement among the answers: usually when you do an open card sort, things will fall into two or three different major sets of buckets and you can work from there, but this one was all over the place and I despaired at ever doing anything with it.
The settings overrun has gotten much worse since then, though, and it's starting to be more urgent to redo them. I've taken a first stab at what I think is a logical grouping; the items inside each tab category are not organized in any way (just reorganizing the order things are listed in will make a lot of difference, I think) but this is my first pass at redoing the groupings.
The major changes (in addition to reordering the tabs themselves) are the consolidation of the Account and History tabs and the Mobile and Other Sites tabs, and the splitting of both Display and Privacy into Journal vs Site; this means we keep the number of tabs constant but there are fewer items in each tab. That, I think, will take care of 90% of the "auuugh options overload", although some of the things are very borderline as to which tab they should go on. (But it's not like it's any better now.) I've included both the label that's displayed to the user (although when I started out I was renaming some of them to be more clear) and the name of the settings package in the code.
Thoughts? Major objections? Once we go through these I'll work on reordering the settings within each tab, and put up a version on my 'hack for people to see in action.
( proposed new tabs/organization )
The settings overrun has gotten much worse since then, though, and it's starting to be more urgent to redo them. I've taken a first stab at what I think is a logical grouping; the items inside each tab category are not organized in any way (just reorganizing the order things are listed in will make a lot of difference, I think) but this is my first pass at redoing the groupings.
The major changes (in addition to reordering the tabs themselves) are the consolidation of the Account and History tabs and the Mobile and Other Sites tabs, and the splitting of both Display and Privacy into Journal vs Site; this means we keep the number of tabs constant but there are fewer items in each tab. That, I think, will take care of 90% of the "auuugh options overload", although some of the things are very borderline as to which tab they should go on. (But it's not like it's any better now.) I've included both the label that's displayed to the user (although when I started out I was renaming some of them to be more clear) and the name of the settings package in the code.
Thoughts? Major objections? Once we go through these I'll work on reordering the settings within each tab, and put up a version on my 'hack for people to see in action.
( proposed new tabs/organization )