Visibility of feedback tools

[dredecki]

Right now we’re getting about half as many 👍:skin-tone-2: /👎:skin-tone-2: ratings as we’d need to be “statistically significant” and we’d like to encourage readers to click. My feeling is that we could possibly give the footer and sidebars a bit more space to help some elements stand out… but in the end I think you’re the experts here. 🙂 Would love to get your input.

[dredecki]

I’ve created a few quick options for you — Figma design. Let me know if this is the direction you’re looking for.

https://www.figma.com/file/NiNCSnUj5XVyQqc3AUEvfX/Docs?node-id=220%3A8249

[sanscontext]

Hey @damian-redecki, these look good and I like the third one the best - but my feeling is that we have too much visual noise on the page. WDYT? 🤔 Especially on the front page with the subway map.

My first thought was to put more whitespace around things so they stand out as separate elements (especially the footer). This doesn't help with the sidebar though...
Before:

After

A possible alternative might be greying out some things until the reader hovers?

[dredecki]

@sanscontext I've played a bit with the spacing. I don't think we need to go with those drastic changes as you suggested. Please check the Figma here — https://www.figma.com/file/NiNCSnUj5XVyQqc3AUEvfX/Docs?node-id=238%3A8629
and let me know what do you think!