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- Learnability: The design uses mostly conventional arrangements(ex. sign in/sign out/my account at top right corner, click on site logo to get back to Home screen, the search box, use of familiar widgets) and most important operations are labeled, so users with some web experience would get used to it quickly. Moderator actions could take somewhat longer to get used to, but they are also well labeled so it shouldn't be too bad for people who take the role of moderators.
- Visibility: When adding to a pre-existing chapter, there's an option to view previous portions in the chapter. Different modes of dealing with a fiction(moderate/contribute/read) are clearly visible from the sidebar and the screen arrangement.
- Efficiency: This design takes somewhat wizard-like approach for many operations, leading users from one screen to another. While the tasks covered here(creating a new fiction, contributing to one, taking moderator actions) are not done very frequently, some frequent users might feel that the design has too many steps. You have to switch between separate modes for different operations even when you have full permission, and this might decrease the efficiency. The floating sidebar that has the mode switch buttons are supposed to help alleviate this. The sidebar also helps readers switch between different chapters efficiently as well.
- Error prevention: Irreversible actions like deleting a fiction or deleting a comment call up confirmation dialogues so that there's slim chance of accidentally deleting things.
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