#84 Distinguish between inbox view and profile view.
Opened by ralph. Modified

This comes out of discussions at devconf and #81:

Your own personal identity on fedora-hubs has two (mutually exclusive) aspects:

  • There's the stuff you do - other people want to see this, you almost never want to see this - call it your "profile" view.
  • There's the stuff other people do that you care about - other people don't want to see your window on their's and other's activity - call this your "inbox" view.

If you visit https://hubs.fedoraproject.org/ - that should be your inbox view. It should be highly configurable.

If you (or anyone) visits https://hubs.fedoraproject.org/ralph - that should be your profile view. And you should get the same view that anyone else gets when looking at it. It should be only minimally configurable, if at all.


So, in the current design, the first tab you are put into when you log in is the "me" tab - that is equivalent to the "inbox" view. We didn't have a concept of someone having a separate profile view from their inbox view - I see the value in being able to see what others see about you, that wasn't in the original design. We do have filters on the inbox view in the design - eg "my stream" "my actions" "saved notifications" - so another filter could be "profile" or have a button ala Linked In, "View my profile how others see it."

Here's how LinkedIn does it.
linked-in.png

Here's how LinkedIn does it.
linked-in.png

Here's some mockup ideas for the inbox view vs profile view.

Also note:

  • these mockups also have an idea as to how hubs should look using Fedora Bootstrap
  • i pulled out the bookmarks bar for now, this isn't a permanent decision

profile-vs-stream_stream-1.png

profile-vs-stream_profile-myown.png

profile-vs-stream_profile-someoneelse.png

profile-vs-stream_profile-someoneelse-unsubscribed.png

Here's some mockup ideas for the inbox view vs profile view.

Also note:

  • these mockups also have an idea as to how hubs should look using Fedora Bootstrap
  • i pulled out the bookmarks bar for now, this isn't a permanent decision

profile-vs-stream_stream-1.png

profile-vs-stream_profile-myown.png

profile-vs-stream_profile-someoneelse.png

profile-vs-stream_profile-someoneelse-unsubscribed.png

Removing needs mockup tag because we have mockups now. Let me know if I missed anything.

Random comments from someone I was doing a prototype test with who wanted to see the profile view: the grey on grey widget titles was difficult for her to read.

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