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UX Guidelines | Decision trees for choosing UI

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Description

Develop decision trees, akin to the notifications tree, to help extension developers choose the best UI elements for their functionality.

Contributor guide

Open the contributing guide

First steps

  1. Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

Research direction

Start by reading the existing notifications decision tree linked in the issue and the surrounding UX Guidelines. Identify which UI-element choices extension developers need to make, then create decision trees that guide those choices; the work is done when the relevant functionality has clear, consistent guidance.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
vscode
Domain
design, documentation
Issue type
Documentation
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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