Task page redirection from the model search page

[merveenoyan]

Hello,
I think it's a UX improvement and an improvement for better visibility of the pages. I want a redirection from the models page to task page, such that when they people filter for a task, they can also get better information on it (+these resources would be more visible)
cc: @osanseviero @gary149 @beurkinger

[beurkinger]

What we could do is having some sort of link/button next to the "Tasks" filter category that redirect to the /tasks page ?

[beurkinger]

Idk how relevant it is on this page

[merveenoyan]

What we could do is having some sort of link/button next to the "Tasks" filter category that redirect to the /tasks page ?

yes that's what I thought
also @julien-c @jeffboudier since we talked about it today (maybe they might have an additional suggestion)

[jeffboudier]

Personally I wouldn't have it on the default /models sidebar, it doesn't feel contextual enough, my suggestion would be to have the link after the user clicks on the list overflow button [+13], then you're really considering all the different tasks and interested about what else HF offers in tasks

And maybe so we don't add cognitive load instead of adding a linked label (e.g. "learn more"), to link the "Tasks" sidebar header label itself (underline on hover for affordance, as in the task name in the inference widget)

[osanseviero]

I agree with you @jeffboudier that having in the /models sidebar by default does not feel right.

One of the concerns with the underline on hover is that it's not discoverable at all. Maybe not a linked text, but for me a ? icon next to "Tasks" only after clicking [+13] would be a good trade-off between discoverability and cognitive overload.

[merveenoyan]

Agreed. That's what we currently have in the widgets and I think it's not good for visibility.

[jeffboudier]

Yes I understand @merveenoyan @osanseviero - and what's good for visibility of one feature is bad for the overall cognitive load. The (?) icon makes sense functionally (I think more so on the /models expanded task sidebar vs. inference widget task link, because it's more directly connected to what user explicitly wants to do), but I haven't seen us use that UI much across the site (most labels on the hub could also have a (?) next to them), underline on-hover seems more consistent to me but in the end that's really a design question @gary149

[adrinjalali]

Any conclusions here? (cleaning up the repo ref: huggingface/huggingface_hub#744)

[aymeric-roucher]

For an update, we discussed this again internally in this thread.

[aymeric-roucher]

This comment from @MoritzLaurer was thumbs'upped by @simoninithomas, @julien-c, @merveenoyan and me:

=> Could we make references to /tasks more prominent in the UI?
Ideas:
(a) making /tasks visible by default at the top (if the screen resolution provides enough space);
(b) when people select a task in the model search of /models there is some small prominently visible modal/link that points people to the relevant task page

[MoritzLaurer]

Hey, just bumping up this issue. The two solutions quoted by @aymeric-roucher above seem to have wide support (see this internal thread) for details. Do you think this could be implemented @beurkinger ? (not sure who the correct person to ping is for this)

[merveenoyan]

I made three mock-ups on how they could look like @gary149 @osanseviero @MoritzLaurer @aymeric-roucher