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Break up categories into groups

Open danirabbit opened this issue 6 years ago • 6 comments

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As we add more categories it might be helpful to break them up into logical groups to help users find the category they're looking for. Some potential groups might be something like "Creative Apps", "Work/Business Apps", "Entertainment Apps".

Couple things to figure out:

  • [ ] What is the language/tone of each heading? Should it be a verbal phrase or an adjective?
  • [ ] What should the groups actually be and which categories belong to each group?

danirabbit avatar Nov 05 '18 23:11 danirabbit

I really like this direction. I am cool with verbal phrase if we stick with it. It'd probably be easier and more translator-friendly to go with boring descriptions though?

For the three categories mentioned (which I like as a start), I'd say we could go with something like

  • Unleash Your Creativity
  • Get Down to Business
  • Take a Break

or

  • Creativity
  • Work
  • Entertainment

cassidyjames avatar Nov 05 '18 23:11 cassidyjames

That's a good point about localization. While arguably more fun, "Get Down to Business" is probably a hard phrase to translate

danirabbit avatar Nov 05 '18 23:11 danirabbit

What about "Producitivity" instead of "Work"? Might be a little broader and could include things like "Finance" that feel like work but aren't like... your job

danirabbit avatar Nov 05 '18 23:11 danirabbit

@danrabbit yeah Productivity sounds more sane

cassidyjames avatar Nov 05 '18 23:11 cassidyjames

So this does have a couple problems. I guess one question is should we force tiles to be the same size no matter their category? Another is, is that weird if categories have different numbers of tiles?

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danirabbit avatar Nov 07 '18 00:11 danirabbit

@danrabbit hm yeah, I wonder if we just set up breakpoints and manually set the widths or something since we're dealing with so many variables. Like, at < 600px size each to be 50%, at < 900px have them be 33%, etc. That way they'd still reflow sanely on multiple sizes but not get so funky based on the label/contents.

cassidyjames avatar Nov 09 '18 00:11 cassidyjames