On readability: I currently made the tradeoff to make post titles that are unread quite readable (with a heavily darkened background). Curious whether the unread/darkened items still seem like they have readability problems for you.
I’d already clicked on most of the articles, so I also didn’t realize that some cells were marked as unread, but I agree that titles with the unread background are comparatively easier to read. And the readability on all titles benefited from the stronger shadows you’ve implemented. Overall my impression is that those stronger shadows make the page slightly less pretty but a lot more readable.
My guess would be that you are one of the few users who has clicked on practically everything in the best of?
For most random users I sampled during testing there is a very clear and identifiable pattern for read-statuses that users understood reliably, but it becomes less obvious as the percentage you’ve read goes above 80% or so (and indeed I cannot test on my own account for I have read all posts and so am seeing a pretty outlierish UI state).
I guess this isn’t terribly important information to communicate in this particular context, anyway…
I do actually think in user testing, seeing people fill the urge to “fill out the picture” by reading a lot of the content, or at least checking it out, seemed like something that brought people a bunch of joy.
On readability: I currently made the tradeoff to make post titles that are unread quite readable (with a heavily darkened background). Curious whether the unread/darkened items still seem like they have readability problems for you.
I’d already clicked on most of the articles, so I also didn’t realize that some cells were marked as unread, but I agree that titles with the unread background are comparatively easier to read. And the readability on all titles benefited from the stronger shadows you’ve implemented. Overall my impression is that those stronger shadows make the page slightly less pretty but a lot more readable.
I would not have guessed that there is any read/unread state marking going on, FYI.
My guess would be that you are one of the few users who has clicked on practically everything in the best of?
For most random users I sampled during testing there is a very clear and identifiable pattern for read-statuses that users understood reliably, but it becomes less obvious as the percentage you’ve read goes above 80% or so (and indeed I cannot test on my own account for I have read all posts and so am seeing a pretty outlierish UI state).
Ah, yeah, that makes sense. (I guess this isn’t terribly important information to communicate in this particular context, anyway…)
I do actually think in user testing, seeing people fill the urge to “fill out the picture” by reading a lot of the content, or at least checking it out, seemed like something that brought people a bunch of joy.