Subsurface Usability Study

[Tomaz Canabrava]

People, specially Luisa:

I did a very rougth Usability Study of Subsurface with Ana Luisa ( a
co-worker, that I shameless stole her time to do that, on a rainy night. )

Things that she pointed:
Overall, nothing major. She redesigned the menu and the application
interface. I'll add every information here.

The Menu:

The "File" menu got simplified.

File
- New Log Book
- Open Log Book
- Save
- Save As
- Close
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- Export
- Print
- Preferences
- Quit

A new entry called "Log" menu appeared, with the following options,

Log
- Import
-- File
-- From Dive Computer
-- Subsurface Webservice
-- Divelogs.de
- Add Dive
- Plan Dive

a "View" entry is as follows:

View
 - All
 - Dive List
 - Profile
 - Info
 - Globe
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- Previous DC
- Next DC
- Yearly Statistics

( Previous DC and Next DC should appear only when avaliable. )

"Help"

This is the menu.


Ana luisa also divided the Dive List with tabs, in the following way:

Full List | Manually Added Dives | SEARCH BOX

I liked the idea and proposed a sligtly different approach:

Full List | Manually Added Dives | < Search Terms > 'x' | '+' , and the +
should create a new tab with a dialog to do specific search criteria,
that's closable, whereas the others aren't.  She hated the idea.


Dive List Changes:

- Remove the Time Stamp ( year / Month ) of dives that are inside of a
Trip, because it's just dupplicated information.

Dive Information Dialog:

- Remove the 'One Click enable edition' feature and put a button to enable
the Edition for safety and remove visual clutter  ( the text-boxes are
clutter, she says, should only be visible when things are really being
edited.


Unfortunately, I tried to take pictures of what she drawned, but it was
terrible, I hope I managed to explain myself in  a good way.

and, OF COURSE  ( before someone punch me in the eye ) this is not for 4.0,
but for 4.1+ ( together with luisaa's amazing work. )

Tomaz
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