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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 08/15/2012 10:05 AM, Jaromír Coufal
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<pre wrap="">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: <a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://codepen.io/n1zyy/pen/xvfms">http://codepen.io/n1zyy/pen/xvfms</a></pre>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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I think as we have the notifications positioned in one place through
the whole application, I find the left border as sufficient
highlight to get user's atention as he is familiar with
notifications position. Also as Jaromir said, in the form's case the
notification is supported with field highlight. Lastly I find white
background more visually pleasing.<br>
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Do you agree?<br>
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<pre wrap="">(Also: my first entry on codepen.io -- nifty site!)
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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.<br>
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<pre wrap="">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.
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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:<br>
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But in my opinion it is too jarring.<br>
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<pre wrap="">Just a thought, in any case.</pre>
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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.<br>
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<pre wrap="">-- Matt
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-- Jarda<br>
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Jaromír Coufal
Interaction Designer
Red Hat Czech s.r.o.
Mobile: +420 724 595 508
E-mail: <a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:jcoufal@redhat.com">jcoufal@redhat.com</a>
IRC: jcoufal at #cloudforms-ui, #aeolus, #brno</pre>
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Jirka<br>
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