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[6.x] UX of the new Collections Overview: How to edit an entry from there
The new collections overview is great, but it raised a question for me. Many clients will likely navigate to this site. Can they figure out how to edit any entry if it’s not listed in the "Newest 5"?
A prominent "Create Entry” button and green dots catch the user’s attention.
However, the links to the full collection are quite subtle: the collection list in the sidebar may be overlooked, as other elements draw the client’s eye. The link in the collection title on the card is also discreet. The third option—switching to list view—requires clicking through two pages. And from my experience, clients often overlook the fourth option via the three dots menu.
There are already several options, but should there be a more obvious way to access any entry? Some possibilities:
- Include the entry count (e.g., "(8 entries)") on the right side of the title as part of the link → this would make the link bigger and a bit more noticeable when hovering around.
- Allow scrolling through the list → doesn’t add new UI elements, but might be conceptually a bit complex.
- Add prev/next buttons on the bottom line. → subtle, but the list is vertical and the buttons show horizontal direction
What do you think? Consider this from the perspective of a client who updates their site only every six months…
That would be more the v5 way. I remember you once raised the question of how this list mode could become more significant in v6. For me grid mode it is. If you change the default to list mode, collections won't differ much from navigation or taxonomy.
Grid mode gives some "visual weight" compared to the others. For clients, I think it is a good decision to visually differ the collections a bit per default from the other content types.
I would probably test to include the "entry count" into the link for now. That would even help myself to navigate a bit faster. = whole title text of the card would be clickable.
And the meaning of the link "Pages (15 entries)" is what it is: I will see all 15 entries.