The speed dial FAB (floating action button) : 1) reveals non- primary action buttons 2) Duplication of Search option once as an independent search field on the same page and second time as a FAB option

[r03ert0]

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Findings

The speed dial FAB (floating action button) :

1. reveals non- primary action buttons
2. Duplication of Search option once as an independent search field on the same page and second time as a FAB option

Impact on the user

As per the Material design guidelines of Google, the FAB button should perform the primary action on the screen.
And in order to use Speed dial FAB, there should be at least 3 actions to be performed

Users have learnt by using other products the industry standards and conventions. Defying those conventions adds cognitive load on the user and increases the chances of mistakes.

Recommendation

The speed dial FAB button should be removed

[ntraut]

The FAB speed dial currently opens three related actions (three different ways to add an image), which follows Google recommendations (https://material.io/components/buttons-floating-action-button#types-of-transitions).

But the search button doesn't do anything, maybe because it was then replaced by the text field to look for images. But the current way the search is implemented is unintuitive as nothing suggests the user that new images will appear just by tipping text.

A more intuitive way to do would be that the search button would open a dialog where we can search for images in the library. That may not be a priority to implement this as we are already in discussion on how the Image tab should be transformed (issue #37).