{"id":2015,"date":"2024-04-16T16:11:19","date_gmt":"2024-04-16T16:11:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rushfordgatheringspace.com\/?p=2015"},"modified":"2024-04-16T16:11:20","modified_gmt":"2024-04-16T16:11:20","slug":"evaluating-context-before-implementing-a-toggle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rushfordgatheringspace.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/16\/evaluating-context-before-implementing-a-toggle\/","title":{"rendered":"Evaluating Context Before Implementing a Toggle"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post-content\"><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/x0YoWP8.jpg\" alt=\"Togle\" align=\"right\" style=\"width:auto; max-height:272px; height:auto; margin:0px 10px; max-width:35%;\"> <\/p>\n<p>Toggle is a user-interface component that allows users to update their preferences, settings, and other types of information. When used well, toggles provide a clear, consistent way to make changes without impacting the existing experience of other users. However, toggles can be confusing when designed poorly, so it&#8217;s important to always evaluate context before implementing them.<\/p>\n<p>Toggles are a common tool for doing things like changing call to action wording on a button or making other data-driven optimizations. Toggle configuration is often managed in source control with either a static commenting approach or an advanced (and somewhat complicated) approach that uses preprocessors to perform dynamic re-configuration at runtime. This makes it easy to see what toggle configuration is being used by a particular cohort and compare the results of different code paths to each other.<\/p>\n<p>When using a static commenting or preprocessor-based approach to managing feature flags it&#8217;s generally best to only release the toggle configuration that you expect will go live in production. That way, it&#8217;s impossible to introduce new regressions in a future version. To further reduce the risk of surprise regressions it&#8217;s a good idea to also test the fall-back configuration, where all toggles you intend to release are flipped Off.<\/p>\n<p>When designing toggles it&#8217;s important to remember that color is an important visual signifier for a toggle&#8217;s current state. As a result, it&#8217;s generally recommended to only use a contrasting color scheme and to consider cultural and societal implications when selecting colors for your toggles. For example, many users have red\/green color vision deficiency and using the colors green and red to convey on and off states could be very confusing for those users.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toggle is a user-interface component that allows users to update<a href=\"https:\/\/rushfordgatheringspace.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/16\/evaluating-context-before-implementing-a-toggle\/\">Read More<i class=\"fa fa-long-arrow-right\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Evaluating Context Before Implementing a Toggle - 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