Feedback needed for design of Flash messages

Jaromír Coufal jcoufal at redhat.com
Wed Aug 15 08:05:40 UTC 2012


> However, I've noticed in the past that people can overlook our flash
> messages because they can be so subtle. I think these will help, but I
> wonder if it's worth giving them more aggressive backgrounds or
> something.
>
> I'm not sure it's as attractive, but I just forked that and put this
> together: http://codepen.io/n1zyy/pen/xvfms
You have a point, I was also thinking about coloring a background. From 
usability point of view it would definitely increase it's visibility. On 
the other hand it might be to much poppy and irritating. Except better 
visibility, I also wanted these flash messages to be decent (not 
blatant) and current design compatible. That's why I used left colored 
border and improved icons. For increasing usability there are also links.

Another fact is, that majority occurrence of flash messages is at form 
pages, where we will (hopefully) have improved forms with highlighted 
invalid input fields. And what we don't want is to significantly alert 
to user on each and every place of the page that he is wrong. This could 
be contra-productive.

I think, if we have flash messages at the top of the page (don't get 
confused by codepan, because it displays it in the second half of the 
page), the visibility should be enough, because it should also cooperate 
with other features to help user in fulfilling his goal. Not as 
independent alerting function.

Do you agree?
> (Also: my first entry on codepen.io -- nifty site!)
Great! Welcome at Codepan! :) I like it so much, even though it has some 
annoying bugs, which make my day worse, but in general really handy tool.
> I just set a background-color set to a lighten()'d version of the border
> color. They're maybe a bit uglier, but they're harder to miss.
As Brian suggested to darken background a little bit, I agree (if it 
should be this case), so I used your fork and adjusted that a little bit:
http://codepen.io/coufalj/pen/FdnjH

But in my opinion it is too jarring.
> Just a thought, in any case.
Matt, thank you for all of your contributions, really like your ideas 
and every piece of discussion can bring better result in the end, so it 
is really welcome.
> -- Matt
-- Jarda

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Jaromír Coufal

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