Thanks for doing this, this looks like it’ll be very helpful for beginners in AI safety, and the content looks great!
I don’t know if this will be addressed in your UI redesign, but I find the UI very counterintuitive. The main problem is that when I open and then close a tab, I expect every sub-tab to collapse and return to the previous state. Instead, the more tabs I open, the more cluttered the space gets, and there’s no way to undo it unless I remove the back part of the URL and reload, or click the Stampy logo.
In addition, it’s impossible to tell which tab was originally nested under which parent tab, which makes it much more difficult to navigate. And confusingly, sometimes there are “random” tabs that don’t necessarily follow directly from their parent tabs (took me a while to figure this out). On a typical webpage, I could imagine thinking “this subtopic is really interesting; I’m going to try to read every tab under it until I’m done,” but these design choices are pretty demotivating for that.
I don’t have a precise solution in mind, but maybe it would help to color-code different kinds of tabs (maybe a color each for root tabs, leaf tabs, non-root branching tabs, and “random” tabs). You could also use more than two visual layers of nesting—if you’re worried about tabs getting narrower and narrower, maybe you could animate the tab expanding to full width and then sliding back into place when it’s closed. Currently an “unread” tab is represented by a slight horizontal offset, but you could come up with another visual cue for that. I guess doing lots of UX interviews and A/B testing will be more helpful than anything I could say here.
You’re right that it’s confusing, and we’ve been planning to change how collapsing and expanding works. I don’t think specifics have been decided on yet; I’ll pass your ideas along.
I don’t think there should be “random” tabs, unless you mean the ones that appear from the “show more questions” option at the bottom. In some cases, the content of child questions may not relate in an obvious way to the content of their parent question. Is that what you mean? If questions are appearing despite not 1) being linked anywhere below “Related” in the doc corresponding to the question that was expanded, or 2) being left over from a different question that was expanded earlier, then I think that’s a bug, and I’d be interested in an example.
Thanks for doing this, this looks like it’ll be very helpful for beginners in AI safety, and the content looks great!
I don’t know if this will be addressed in your UI redesign, but I find the UI very counterintuitive. The main problem is that when I open and then close a tab, I expect every sub-tab to collapse and return to the previous state. Instead, the more tabs I open, the more cluttered the space gets, and there’s no way to undo it unless I remove the back part of the URL and reload, or click the Stampy logo.
In addition, it’s impossible to tell which tab was originally nested under which parent tab, which makes it much more difficult to navigate. And confusingly, sometimes there are “random” tabs that don’t necessarily follow directly from their parent tabs (took me a while to figure this out). On a typical webpage, I could imagine thinking “this subtopic is really interesting; I’m going to try to read every tab under it until I’m done,” but these design choices are pretty demotivating for that.
I don’t have a precise solution in mind, but maybe it would help to color-code different kinds of tabs (maybe a color each for root tabs, leaf tabs, non-root branching tabs, and “random” tabs). You could also use more than two visual layers of nesting—if you’re worried about tabs getting narrower and narrower, maybe you could animate the tab expanding to full width and then sliding back into place when it’s closed. Currently an “unread” tab is represented by a slight horizontal offset, but you could come up with another visual cue for that. I guess doing lots of UX interviews and A/B testing will be more helpful than anything I could say here.
You’re right that it’s confusing, and we’ve been planning to change how collapsing and expanding works. I don’t think specifics have been decided on yet; I’ll pass your ideas along.
I don’t think there should be “random” tabs, unless you mean the ones that appear from the “show more questions” option at the bottom. In some cases, the content of child questions may not relate in an obvious way to the content of their parent question. Is that what you mean? If questions are appearing despite not 1) being linked anywhere below “Related” in the doc corresponding to the question that was expanded, or 2) being left over from a different question that was expanded earlier, then I think that’s a bug, and I’d be interested in an example.