id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,priority,milestone,component,version,severity,resolution,keywords,cc
21583,Improve discoverability and visual design of Screen Options and Help Panels,chexee,,"The Screen Options and Help panels are not very discoverable and, in part because of this, aren't very helpful to our users.

Here are the problems with them right now:

* Most users are blind to these tabs.
* The labels and positioning give little indication as to what these tabs actually do.
* For a lot of users, Help is not that helpful.
*They’re position in the admin creates yet another point of navigation for users to be aware of (and per #1, most of them aren’t).
* The very wide container for text makes a lot of the help text difficult to read.

Here are some proposals to improve the design and discoverability of these tabs (related images and mockups are here: http://make.wordpress.org/ui/2012/08/06/we-did-some-brainstorming-at-dev-day-today/) :
* Adding icons to these tabs would (hopefully) both make these tabs more visible and give a better indication as to what these tabs too.
* Moving these to the right side of the toolbar would give even more context to what these do, as they would be grouped with other user-specific settings.
* (6) The toolbar dropdown would allow for a slimmer content area for better readability.
* (7) The slimmer content area would let us make screen options read like a list for better scannability.
* (4/5) Putting the gear on the upper right would standardise with several other web apps (Twitter, etc).

Related: #21326",enhancement,new,normal,Future Release,Help/About,,normal,,needs-patch early,ocean90 koop@… sabreuse@… helen.y.hou@… xoodrew@… georgemamadashvili@… melissachoyce@… td@… j@… fittingsites@… kadamwhite mdhansen@… hidgw