784194 - Succinct category names

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Marketplace Graveyard :: Consumer Pages, defect, P4)

Description

[krupa raj[:krupa]]

We show categories on our homepage and the dimensions we are optimizing for are 320x480. In that width, having categories like "Books & References" is not going to look pretty. 

We need succinct category names.

Comment 1

[Potch [:potch]]

I agree.

Comment 2

[Lisa Brewster [:adora]]

What's the max number of characters supported by the design?

Comment 3

[Christopher Van Wiemeersch [:cvan]]

(In reply to Lisa Brewster [:adora] from comment #2)
> What's the max number of characters supported by the design?

http://cl.ly/image/3x0t2k0C091N

~12-14 characters

Comment 4

[Christopher Van Wiemeersch [:cvan]]

What we doing here?

Comment 5

[David Bialer [:dbialer]]

We need to all the categories accessible in some way.  I think we should abandon this approach and focus it on UX where more categories can be accessed.  This, IMHO, is the right solution.  Doesn't mean that they are all on the home page, but are navigable to so users can explore these other categories.

Comment 6

[David Bialer [:dbialer]]

Focus on this bug 807820 instead.

Comment 7

[Christopher Van Wiemeersch [:cvan]]

Can we rename these pretty please?

Comment 8

[Christopher Van Wiemeersch [:cvan]]

I think we should make these changes: https://github.com/cvan/zamboni/commit/c409648d

The long category names get wrapped and they look heinous IMVHO: http://f.cl.ly/items/1w0N3n2n141X2T330a29/Screen%20Shot%202013-02-20%20at%205.39.57%20PM.png

Comment 9

[Christopher Van Wiemeersch [:cvan]]

http://f.cl.ly/items/292G1n10343j2O3Q0G3J/Screen%20Shot%202013-02-20%20at%205.41.14%20PM.png

These look so pretty you say? Why yes they do!

Comment 10

[David Bialer [:dbialer]]

IHVHO as well, I think it is prettier, but we have even less ways for users to explore apps now because we eliminated some categories:
books and reference
Entertainment and sports
fitness
weather
and added media

What happened to categories sports?  How would someone know to get a FIFA app from entertainment?

and still don't show several other categories (bug 807820).

I feel the pain, but ultimately think we need to solve a bigger category issue:  what should our categories be, how are they defined,  how should they be named, how do we expose them to end users?

Comment 11

[Christopher Van Wiemeersch [:cvan]]

We can always make category names longer. And we can always add more categories later. For now they look pretty bad and are unnecessarily verbose.

Comment 12

[David Bialer [:dbialer]]

I think the icons don't exactly match the category names for Health (shows are running show - more fitness), Entertainment (which has the star and medal), and News (which has the newspaper and sun).  We should keep for now but adjust all this later when we figure out categories better.

Comment 13

[David Bialer [:dbialer]]

The category names and UI is under re-design.  I don't think they will be shorter, but will be more descriptive.

Comment 14

[Wil Clouser [:clouserw]]

UX is looking into how to adjust our layout for longer category names

Comment 15

[Matt Basta [:basta]]

This looks great now under the redesigned category dropdown, even with super long category names (BastaCorp Telephone and Appliance is very pleased).

Thanks UX/Design!