2018-13 - WET 5 workshop – UXDS @ STATCAN
Sage Cram ran a workshop with his team and here is their feedback. Basically they did a what we like about WET4, What we don’t like about WET4 and what we’d love to have in 5.
What Works (what we want to keep in WET5)
- Accessibility
- Validation
- Layout
- Documentation with working examples
- Bootstrap base
- Themes
- Standard templates
- Consistency
- Branding/FIP
- Base HTML structure
- Flexibility within the wrapper
- Constraints of the wrapper
- Grids
- Responsiveness
- Widgets:
- Filters
- Alerts
- Some charting features
- Equalize ability
What doesn’t work
- Formatting / styles of tables
- Panel styles
- There are no small spacing classes
- Theming / Colour scheme (hard to change without lots of work)
- Fonts
- Pink error messages
- Labels wrap around form controls
- Limited visuals for chart options and icons
- Date picker
- Forms & Errors are hard to modify
- Max page width
- Top of page takes up lots of space
- Lack of utility classes
- Not consistent with standards
- Not extensible
- Too many site examples
What we’d like to see in WET5
- More flexibility
- Well thought out css classes that can build on each other
- Easy customizable css
- Accessible colours
- User friendly documentation
- Plugins for static publishing
- More form controls (e.g. combo box, multi-select)
- Additional modernized widgets
- Modern controls
- Better grid system
- Integration for other frameworks (bootstrap, react)
- AJAX friendly dev options
- Updated validation messaging and design
- Wider pages (1600px)
- More table options / management
- Extensibility
- More communication
- Updates about changes
- Sprints
- documentation