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Clicking on an avatar to see a user's profile
Below a post the user avatar shows, along with the username and some stats. The username is a link to the user profile page:
Note the mouse cursor shows a hand pointing to indicate this is a link.
However, the avatar is not a link:
Note the mouse cursor shows an arrow - this is not a link.
Could the avatar also be made a link to the user profile page? This would be consistent with the user's own avatar at the top right of the page, and would make visiting the user profile page easier by giving a larger click target (particularly for users with short usernames).
Another option would be to make the whole grey box a link to the user profile page, for an even bigger click target. Does anyone have a preference between these two approaches?
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You are accessing this answer with a direct link, so it's being shown above all other answers regardless of its score. You can return to the normal view.
We made the avatar a click target, but not the whole box. The reason for the latter is that we want to keep open the option for other clickable things within that box later. One idea we've talked about, for example, is to show a user's top tags (perhaps only when relevant to the current question), and we'd want those to be separately clickable. It's easier to learn patterns than to unlearn them, so we don't want to offer a larger click target and then later change what it does. It's my hope that the avatar is large enough to serve as a target on a phone even with big fingers.
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preference between these two approaches?
There are actually three approaches to consider, your two alternative proposals and leaving it alone.
I don't have any preference between leaving it alone and making the avatar clickable. Having the avatar clickable is probably slightly more intuitive, but this is a really minor nit in the scheme of things where there are far more important things to spend brain cycles on.
However, the whole box should not be one click target. In some future context it might be useful to have the scores also displayed in that box individually clickable. I'm not saying anyone should run out and do that, but it makes sense to leave it as an option.
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