Wikimedia Foundation Design/Agora Control Library
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The Agora Control Library is a series of styles and behaviors for common controls that are reused across projects within MediaWiki.
Current state
There is a mediawiki.ui library (documentation) in core, written in Less. You can see it working in the MediaWiki desktop living style guide.
Each team who will be using controls from the Agora Library is writing their controls in LESS within their own project; some of these are entirely new controls, and some override or enhance the mediawiki.ui ones. The next step is to move these new or modified controls into core so they are available to all developers. For example, the Flow discussion software implemented revised button design, and Gerrit change 103494 updates core to these designs.
The initial look and feel of Agora Controls was outlined in Agora_specs.pdf in August 2013; however, this is an iterative process and controls will change during implementation.
Existing & planned controls
Buttons
Buttons come in 4 basic types, Neutral, Progressive, Destructive, and Constructive
Quiet action
Button without a border and background. Same 4 types Neutral null state and Progressive/Destructive/Constructive
See and use the buttons in the living style guide with commentary.
Progress bar buttons
Segmented control
Toolbars
Toolbar button
Toolbar button icon only
e.g. VE tool buttons; also a Flow board's Full-Collapsed-Small view icon trio?
Toolbar button with icon and label
e.g. VE page settings
Sub-toolbar "drawer"
e.g. VE toolbar for advanced text styling
Toolbar flyout
e.g. VE toolbar junk drawer (more v)
Input fields
Text input fields come in many styles, with special behaviors, such as search, validation, and content obscuring in the case of passwords.
Single-line input
Multi-line input
Search input
Validated input
Password input
Special cases
ULS language selector control
Date picker control
Flyout
e.g. Flow "action menu" in topic bar.
e.g. Flow post moderation actions (Hide/Suppress/Delete)
Actionable
Dual action or collapsible (top, left, bottom, right anchoring)
Informational
Anchored to element and triggered by focus state (top, left, bottom, right anchoring)
Flyout menu
vertical list of actions in a stacked menu]
Guide/Hint
Control
Radio button
Dropdown
Combo box
Multi-select
Field
Requested by Fundraising tech
Dropdown
Check box
Number stepper
Sliders
Precise
Imprecise
Action rail
Notifications/toasters
Alerts
Saves
Connection issues
Progress indicators
Full page
Determinate/percentage
Indeterminate
Requested controls
Button with image
Requestor: Growth Team (WMF)
Use: Getting started (also [☺ Thank] button in Flow, Reply button in Flow with icon)
Status : Not designed
Button with status indicator
Requestor: Core Features (WMF)
Use: Flow/submit
Bug :
Status : Not designed
Multi-line text button
Requestor: Growth Team (WMF)
Use: Getting started
Status : Not designed
Flyout menus
Extended actions
Requestor: Core Features (WMF)
Use: Flow Action menu
Status : Designed
Horizontal action menu
Requestor: Core Features (WMF)
Use: Flow Flag actions
Status : Designed
Rich controls
Language selector
Requestor: Language Engineering (WMF)
Use: ULS
Bug :
Status : Not designed
Date picker
Requestor: Wikidata
Use: Data Input
Bug :
Status : Not designed
See also
- /Behavior - Q&A guide to using these controls
- Category:Design audit - its subcategories are a visual taxonomy of UX features
- Tracking bug 53733 - Use the same icons to represent the same things
- Wikimedia Foundation Design/Patterns and components - the same thing before it was called Agora?