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In the August product update it was noted that the 'yellow publish banner' would be removed, with only the constant list status and publish button remaining to make things less cluttered. This is not preferable -- the yellow publish banner needs to stay!
While the new publish banner 'floats/rolls' as you scroll (which is great), it is not particularly visible because it is white -- it blends in too much --- and there is little aesthetic differences between statuses --- It is too discreet --- so it is not obvious enough when a list actually needs to be published/when students cannot see changes.
Making the familiar eye catching yellow banner (that only appeared when it needed to be clicked) stay in view (by floating/rolling) would more effectively inform and 'teach' lecturers when they need to publish.
Please:
reinstate the yellow publish banner. It was vibrant, familiar, and only appeared when needed. All that needed to change was to make it 'float/roll' as a user scrolled, and the for the wording to more clearly communicate that if it is not clicked, students would not see list changes.
"Unpublished changes! Your changes are not visible to students" Publish
remove the constant list status/publish button to make lists cleaner, and to make it clearer when a list needs to be published
Update:
Suggestion on wording added to related idea instead: https://technologyfromsage02.ideas.aha.io/ideas/PROD-I-653
Having the list status bar at least turn yellow when there are unpublished changes is a great compromise we would settle for!
Thanks for the feedback, Evelyn, I'll take note!
Lisa's explained why you want to keep the floating publish bar as it is for a while, but just to add that my team have also told me that they'd love to have the yellow back to mark unpublished changes - if the floating publish bar could be yellow when there are unpublished changes, and white when the list is published, we feel that would be more visually striking.
Thanks for your feedback, Sarah! The design was based on usability testing sessions with academics conducted by our User Experience expert designer. We will be following how the new designs work for a year, and consider improvements later. Best, Product Team.