I agree that the feed and all post concept could be combined more elegantly. If I had had more time I would have thought about that more. Ruby, who designed the feed, had similar feedback.
The settings icon to the right of the feed is small and too easy to ignore, and also takes one too many clicks to access. Also, "All posts" tab is redundant with the "Posts" section of the Feed
I agree that the cog feels too subtle, and maybe not the right way to filter the feed. I tried version with tabs and again it drew attention away from the content. That said, I think the cog is too small and unbutton-like so it's too easy to miss.
The feedback didn't feel harsh to me. I'm wanting to share more about the intentions behind the first iteration of the design.
As context, I think it's helpful to identify a primary user and scenario for a design because different design decisions trade-off against each other. In this case, I chose to have two primary users and scenarios because they seemed like mirrors of each other.
Primary users and scenarios:
A. Profile owners feel proud to share this. Feedback I heard on the previous page was that it was "kind of a mess".
B. Someone who is not a lesswrong user, but interested in a person's work, feels drawn to actually read it. More people who look at the profile click on an article and read it than before.
Secondary scenario:
People who use the page regulary can still still find the content they were looking for and their experience is not meaningfully harder day-to-day.
Oli told me there would be interactions like this.
It's how it effects all pages, but good to know that it wasn't clear.
The cog
Thank you, re: lie. I agree. Will note that.
Now that you tapped on feed once, anytime you go to someone's profile it should automatically go there. Same if you filter by comments.
When you tap on your name in the header there's a drop down with a link to your drafts.
Hi, I am Joanna. I did a design work trial for Lesswrong that ends tonight! As part of that, I designed a new profile page. If you don't like it, I won't be around to fix it unless they hire me. But, the team would surely care if you have comments! (And I would too.)
You can change your top post right? Just click the edit button.