New Feedback Needed: The Trading Post Page

[Impulse]

You may have noticed a new addition to Office Outlaw's navigation bar:



Clicking on this will direct users to what should be our main hub for reaching the Trading Post. We currently have a list of all Trading Post sections and a list of the most recently updated threads displayed here.



This page was made from scratch, so I expect that it may be a little bare bones and may have some bugs.

Ideally, I want this page to be useful and extensive enough to allow us to remove the Trading Post sections from the forum list and keep them within this page.

Any feedback on issues or suggested improvements we could make to this page would be extremely appreciated!

 

[Octavia]

• The Text box ( Need designs that.... ) needs some padding both on desktop and mobile.
  

• the main part of this page gets smushed first on certain devices(resolutions) like IPad
• Latest from the Trading Post ( everywhere on the site its been shown as The Trading Post)
  
  

 

[Pythagore]

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• The Text box ( Need designs that.... ) needs some padding both on desktop and mobile.

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• the main part of this page gets smushed first on certain devices(resolutions) like IPad
• Latest from the Trading Post ( everywhere on the site its been shown as The Trading Post)
  

looks fine on my desktop

 

[Rem]

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looks fine on my desktop

fine?
ARE YOU SURE IT"S FINEEEEEE
It looks ugly as heck
Surely there is a better way to do it
maybe in boxes

 

[Impulse]

@Octavia, I was working on this earlier and the page should be more responsive in all widths now.

 

[Spy]

How about we make it look like this?

 

[Festinger Vault]

Sorry, I don't like it.

I second @Spy suggestion to make use of cards. The two colums (left one is too narrow) seems unnatural to me.

 

[Impulse]

OK, I have been going through all of the feedback and seeing what changes can be made. I've made more changes based on what has been suggested and the page does look a bit better now.



I'll try addressing all of the feedback given one by one:

The Text box ( Need designs that.... ) needs some padding both on desktop and mobile.

I agree - I will look into adding better styling and padding for the text boxes, but it's something I'll have to consider more when overall design is more finalised.

the main part of this page gets smushed first on certain devices(resolutions) like IPad

I mentioned this before but I'll add in here too that the page should look good at all resolutions now. If there is still any wonkiness, I'll make more adjustments.

Latest from the Trading Post ( everywhere on the site its been shown as The Trading Post)

To be honest, I'm not sure if we are going for The Trading Post or Trading Post. I'm not keen on adding a "the" to the title unnecessarily, but I would like to see if we can more consistent across the forum, so we'll have a discussion on this.

fine?
ARE YOU SURE IT"S FINEEEEEE
It looks ugly as heck
Surely there is a better way to do it
maybe in boxes

How about we make it look like this?

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Sorry, I don't like it.

I second @Spy suggestion to make use of cards. The two colums (left one is too narrow) seems unnatural to me.

The page is now in a card format instead of a single column list. I think it looks a lot more clean and modern - let me know if this is how you guys were hoping it would look or if it is still missing the mark.

 

[Spy]

@Impulse How about we add a boundary with round edges?

As well as can you test out the look without the "Latest from the Trading Post" ?

 

[Impulse]

@Impulse How about we add a boundary with round edges?

As well as can you test out the look without the "Latest from the Trading Post" ?

@Zwielicht and I can both add more styling to the page to improve it, we're mostly just making sure the structure of the page works.

I originally made the page without the block showing the latest posts in the Trading Post, and it just looked bland and dead. You can see for yourself using inspect element by just removing the



I think it's important to have this block to show the activity of the trading post to anyone viewing this page. However if there are any ideas for a better placement for the block, such as putting it under the directory block or moving it to the right of the page instead, that might make a difference.