678603 - Don't make me click for addon details

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(addons.mozilla.org Graveyard :: Public Pages, defect)

Description

[Erik Vold]

The new AMO design has implemented a bunch of 'design' elements which make me click more to see information which I do not want to do.

Please see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuELwq2ThJE in this video Aza Raskin describes why a couple of the 'design' elements added in the new AMO layout are bad.

To be specific please remove the following from addon pages like https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/scriptish/ :

- Screenshot slider
- Accordions

Comment 1

[Justin Scott [:fligtar]]

The details page was redesigned with the most important information at the top, less important information at the bottom, and information that the vast majority of users don't care about hidden. Normal users don't need to see every piece of information we have about an add-on, and showing it makes the page more cluttered and complicated for them.

I'm open to the idea of cookie-based auto-expanding as a future improvement, but we intentionally changed the default to be what it is.

Comment 2

[Erik Vold]

I don't see why hiding the less important information is useful to anyone, just throw it at the bottom of the page so that one can easily see it by scrolling to it, and easily ignore it by scrolling away from it, instead of having to click on a bunch of things to find the information that they want.