{"id":5846795,"date":"2015-02-28T14:31:07","date_gmt":"2015-02-28T14:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/improvement-for-plugin-installations-updates\/"},"modified":"2016-08-22T17:30:02","modified_gmt":"2016-08-22T17:30:02","slug":"improvement-for-plugin-installations-updates","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/improvement-for-plugin-installations-updates\/","title":{"rendered":"Improvement for Plugin Installations \/ Updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hey,<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been installing and updating a few plugins lately. The process is straight forward but the UI is left behind. It&#8217;s 2015 and even &#8220;slow and cheap&#8221; hosting plans are fast enough. Certainly faster compared to what we had back in the day. The installation \/ update page for plugins hasn&#8217;t changed much but hosting did.<\/p>\n<p>Today the experience of installing \/ updating a plugin is the following: A bunch of text appears at once on the screen. There is some waiting time. Plugin installed \/ updated. Further action might be needed.<\/p>\n<p>The design of the experience assumes the hosting server is slow enough so every step of the process needs to be expressed and explained. Downloading, unpacking, installing, removing etc.<\/p>\n<p>What if we could simplified this process with a familiar concept which is also used in the mobile world? A progress bar.<\/p>\n<p>The experience is simple, clean, understandable, familiar.<\/p>\n<p>Since the steps of installing \/ updating a plugin are discrete the progress bar can increase accordingly. Any waiting time is clearly indicated and understood with the % of progress and bar&#8217;s length. Errors can be communicated with color and current strings \/ messages.<\/p>\n<p>I created a quick mockup based on this idea. Food for thought. Let me know what you think. https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/sh\/kcwe3sk5yyj7swf\/AABU_Nyr8zJQIvcS5hzi4bwWa?dl=0<\/p>\n<p>Top is the current UI. Bottom is the new concept UI.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-5846795","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/5846795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/topic"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/5846795\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5846795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}