Feedly is the best way to ingest the content you need for work by putting your favorite feeds in an organized newsfeed. Over the past few weeks we have rethought the way you can clean up and reorganize your feedly. I worked with the feedly team to design two different concepts and would love to hear your feedback to help us build the best organized experience possible!
In a recent survey with 5,000 participants, many of you showed us that you like to reorganize your feedly for two main reasons:
Spring cleaning
Every once in a while you need to clean up your feedly to make sure you only follow the feeds that interest you. This involves removing inactive feeds (the ones that have not published in months), removing the feeds you don’t read anymore, and promoting articles to “must-read” publications, so you don’t miss a story.
Reorganization
There are other times when you feel like reorganizing parts or all of your feedly. Maybe you have new interests or you want to split a topic into a few more specific topics, such as splitting your Marketing Collection into SEO and Digital Marketing Collections. All of this involves renaming Collections, moving them around and moving feeds from one Collection to another.
After a few weeks of design work with these two use cases in mind, we came up with two design directions:
Concept 1: Organize At a Glance
The main idea behind this concept is that everything is available in one page with just the crucial information you need to optimize your feedly. Your collections are listed on the right and the selected Collection’s feeds appear at the center of the page. This enables you to move from Collection to Collection without switching context.
You can try out this concept on InVision: https://invis.io/D567GADVZ
View important information at a glance
With this first concept we are showing you the essential information you need when you need it, no less, no more. For instance, when looking at a Collection you will see the feeds that are Must Read and those which are inactive. It’s just enough information for you to take action with no clutter.
Because your Collections are listed on the right side, you can easily navigate from one to the other rapidly.
Take the main actions in one click
Most actions are one click away or one drag away. Hit the cross or the star icon to remove a feed from a Collection or mark a feed as must read, respectively (see below for examples). Use drag and drop gestures to move a feed to the Collection it should belong to and re-order your Collections.
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Making a feed must read
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Moving a feeds to a different Collection
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Reordering a Collection
Concept 2: Organize with Deep Site Information
This second concept takes advantage of data tables and the feedly slider. The main page displays all of your Collections. After you select a Collection we use the feedly slider to show all of the feeds it contains.
This concept focuses on showing you as much information as possible in a consistent way so you can easily decide what action to take on each item.
You can try out this concept on InVision: https://invis.io/ED67GAMB2
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Concept 2: Collection list
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Concept 2: feed list
See all the data you need
Both the Collection list page and the feed list slider are tables displaying all the information you need to quickly undestand where you should take action. Quickly see which Collections have the most inactive feeds and which feeds last posted a long time ago.
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Last posted data on feed list
Use a consistent popup to edit your feeds
Whether you want to edit the name of a feeds, mark it as read, remove it from a Collection, move to a different one or add it to multiple Collections, a consistent dropdown menu will be there to accomplish all these tasks across the application.
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Editing a feed
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Reordering a Collection
Both of these concepts are available on InVision (here and there). There are a few things you can interact with so you can get a feel for them. Have a look and let us know about what works and what doesn’t. Feel free to leave comments here or within the InVision prototypes.
We are looking forward to listening to your feedback!
Antoine and the feedly Team.
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