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New users have difficulty finding where to adjust the content model

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Created on 15 February 2012, almost 13 years ago
Updated 5 August 2023, over 1 year ago

Problem/Motivation

New users don't know where to go to add new content types. Everyone starts by clicking on the "content" link in the Toolbar (sometimes, repeatedly) and struggles with this being almost the right place do to what they want. Here's a video of one participant from the Google Usability studies struggling with where to go to add a new type of content and again after hes already been there once, and again a third time.

Proposed resolution

(per #72/#73/#81

Implement hook_help() for node.add_page route and add a sentence along the lines of

Choose which type of content to create. You can also add a new content type.

Related Issues

Note that as proposed in comment #54 below, I have separated out the issue of a secondary button on the Content listing page, since there are still UX decisions to be made (including a new UX pattern within the Admin UI), and potentially some larger technical issues to solve, in the hopes that we can see some momentum on this issue.

🐛 Bug report
Status

Needs work

Version

11.0 🔥

Component
Node system  →

Last updated about 6 hours ago

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🇺🇸United States jenlampton

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  • Comment over 1 year ago →
    🇫🇮Finland lauriii Finland
  • Status changed to Needs review over 1 year ago
  • Open in Jenkins → Open on Drupal.org →
    Environment: PHP 8.2 & MySQL 8
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  • Comment over 1 year ago →
    🇷🇺Russia kostyashupenko Omsk

    Reroll against 11.x

  • Comment over 1 year ago →
    🇳🇱Netherlands yoroy

    This would be very useful! I would like to consider this as a small UI design pattern.
    An updated screenshot would be nice.

    1. Adding 🌱 Providing additional methods of navigating the admin interface Active for a similar situation.
    2. Though the screenshots are old, current Claro designs also don't add a final horizontal line in these kinds of lists. This suggests that the link is part of the content of the last list item instead of a separate thing.

    It's not a primary, not even secondary action, more like a helpful navigation hint: 'Oh, by the way, if you want to create your own version of these thingies, go here. Right aligned would work I think. It probably needs more top spacing or border to clearly separate it from the list items above.

  • Status changed to Needs work over 1 year ago
  • Comment over 1 year ago →
    🇺🇸United States smustgrave

    For the IS update from 110.

    May be worth pinging in #contribute or #needs-review-queue-initative for subsystem review.

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