Small UI redesign proposal for media uploader

  • Hi everyone

    I would like to discuss with you a small design proposal which could improve user experience when uploading files.

    Right now, when adding images to a post, you get an ‘Insert Media’ dialog where you can drag files to upload. Perfect, so far.

    However, if you want to manually select some files via file chooser, you have to click another tab, and then click again on a button to launch the file chooser. If you use it a lot, that extra click gat become a bit annoying.

    My proposal would be to remove that extra ‘Upload Files’ tab and just add a simple ‘Select Files’ button on the ‘Insert Media’ dialog.

    See mockup here

    What do you think about this?

    Is this the right place to post this? I would love to get some feedback from someone working on the WordPress UI.

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  • Moderator cubecolour

    (@numeeja)

    You don’t need the extra click. If you are in the ‘media library’ tab of the insert media page, you can upload images by dragging them directly into the media library without clicking ‘upload files’ first.

    Thread Starter Jorge Toledo

    (@jorgetoledo)

    Yes, that is the usual workflow, but if your files are somewhere else in a folder you don’t have currently open, you may want to directly pick them via file chooser.

    In that scenario, with this proposal, you would just need one click, not the click/load/point/click sequence we currently have.

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