On Oct 14, 2006, at 4:34 AM, Dries Buytaert wrote:

Hello,

the Drupal APC usability report (http://drupal.org/node/83806) states that the vocabulary creation form could use some work (page 16-17):

"Some forms (eg vocabulary creation) could use additional text to explain the purpose of some of the fields that they contain.".

Elsewhere they state:

"The purpose of some fields (eg hierarchy) found within the vocabulary creation form are somewhat ambiguous, and the descriptive text provided does not provide clarity. A group of checkboxes and their purpose is also somewhat ambiguous. Some work could be done to combine the text found on the main categories administration page with the text found on this form.".

Facts: - Creating a vocabulary is a really popular task. - The form to create a vocabulary is not self-explanatory and scares people away.

Anyone cares to look into this? It seems that with a little bit of work, we could make a difference for thousands of people. I'd love to see this fixed in Drupal 5.0. Thanks,

Studies have shown that developers respond best to usability feedback when it is presented as a mock-up, or wireframe. A good intermediary step might be for one person to propose a mock-up, jump into #drupal or #drupal-support, and ask for to give feedback on creating vocabularies with the mock-up form. Make improvements, repeat 5x. Once the mock-up is done I am sure it would get implemented very quickly. I am happy to help, but I still have 1700 survey responses to summary, and 1100 other responses to read and summarize. Kieran

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