Just wiping away my drool! Really beautiful landing page and dashboard. I have a couple of thoughts:
The first sign up button could be as juicy and bright as the one at the bottom of the page, my eyes almost glaze over it since it isn’t so prominent.
This landing page does a great job of providing gentle, user-friendly introduction to the concept of storage, makes it feel approachable. The RS site could use something like this.
Perhaps related to the previous point, I’ve always felt that 5apps should be directly linked from the storage widget so that non-technical users who need to create an account have a simple path forward. I don’t consider the current experience to be intuitive: one is directed to the wiki, one has to know to look under the ‘Hosted’ section, there are two options but the second one has no mention of RS nor does it have an automated sign up process. When there is a larger diversity of providers, it would make more sense to show a selection of options, but at the moment I’d say that 5apps is the only plausible option for non-technical users. We can embrace this inextricable association, at least temporarily, and make things easier for a lot of people.
I don’t know if the dashboard’s ‘click on the domain to login’ feature was always there, but it’s super cool; I would not hide this functionality under the domain text, I would have an explicit button or link for this so that people know it exists. Slight issue that it doesn’t remember the path which requested access, so it sends me to the root where there is no app to take the credentials. If I change the URL to include the app path, it works beautifully.
I love how simple 5apps makes it to get started with RemoteStorage.
As I work with RemoteStorage Apps I happen to sign in a lot into various apps, therefore I’ve a couple suggestions regarding this flow.
Make the authorize view accessible: Apart from helping people who are relying on screen readers and other assistive technologies, it’s easier for heavy keyboard users. I often use tab and enter or space to navigate and click buttons. Currently I can’t know what button is currently focus and what I’m clicking once I press enter.
Autofocus the Authorize or Decline Button: this is important for user experience, the less time it takes to accomplish a task, the better.
If you’d like help with this let me know, I’m on a strict schedule at the moment, but I’ve got a lot of ideas as I’ve been working in Frontend Development for many years.
