Improved linking experience #17230
Labels
domain:ui/ux
This issue reports a problem related to UI or UX.
package:link
squad:core
Issue to be handled by the Core team.
type:improvement
This issue reports a possible enhancement of an existing feature.
Note
This initiative is connected to the Bookmarks work.
Goal
Our main goal is to allow users to easily link to the bookmarks created in the document. But we are aware that the linking interface is one of the most used, and it would be good to redesign it thinking also about other (future) use cases.
Description
Linking experience is the core of the editor. It's important to remember linking to bookmarks is just one use case in the whole context of linking.
When we think about linking, there are a couple of actions that could the user do in modern systems:
We decided to spend some time, iterate on the current link UI, and cover most of the use cases above. Check the prototypes below.
Prototypes
Linking
Nagranie.z.ekranu.2024-10-3.o.08.52.54.mov
Bookmarks
Nagranie.z.ekranu.2024-10-3.o.08.51.52.mov
Decorators
Screen.Recording.2024-10-07.at.11.52.06.mov
Scope
We are still defining the final scope, for now, the main directions of development for us are:
We don’t plan to provide the search of links feature yet. This would have a large scope to cover, and making accessible search is non-trivial. But we definitely consider this in the future.
We are also aware that there are some integrators override/extend the link UI. We will try to figure out what to do with it, and implement minimal breaking changes if possible.
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