pagination: should we add a "Previous page" button?

[johnjung]

pagination: should we add a "Previous page" button?

[johnjung]

I'm going to tag this "design", since I remember a discussion with Kathy where we were talking about the page turner. Is there another page turner in a different site that we're matching?

[MomoMoses]

Agreed. Not trying to match another site, though I have often seen "Previous" buttons, often highlighted in a different color than the "Next" button.

[kzadrozny]

Bulma lets you customize the pagination as you wish: https://bulma.io/documentation/components/pagination/

[johnjung]

Do we have a mockup that shows pagination?

[kzadrozny]

We already have pagination active in the results template on test server. It is using Bulma's pagination: https://bmrcportal-test.lib.uchicago.edu/search/?q=hampton
There are mocks that show the pagination in our Mocks directory in Box. Here is one example: https://uchicago.box.com/s/1laay3kuo5q9vdo6olbyid0991hyahea

[johnjung]

Laurie and I had a conversation about this a few months ago. At that time, we decided to omit the previous page button, since users can just use the back button or the page links to visit a previous page. Because stakeholders have already signed off on mockups that omit a previous page button, I'm going to tag this as "research". If user testing shows that the previous page button would be helpful, we can add it back- but at this point I prefer matching mockups as close as we can.