TestFlight feedback for Subsurface-mobile. Layout

Dirk Hohndel dirk at hohndel.org
Fri Apr 1 14:30:03 PDT 2016


On Fri, Apr 01, 2016 at 10:08:43PM +0200, Willem Ferguson wrote:
> On 01/04/2016 21:16, Jaspal Sahota wrote:
> >Look and feel.
> >Can't put my finger on it but the dive list feels hard to read. If I contrast it with what diving log uses (screenshot attached) it feels like I can grasp  more info more quickly with the black font, spacing, icon etc.
> >
> I think I understand it. In the Divinglog screen, the lines belonging to a
> single dive are closely-spaced. Conversely in Divinglog there is relatively
> wide line spacing between two consecutive dives, reinforced by the
> horizontal line. In Subsurface there is a more or less even spacing of lines
> both within and between consecutive dives: the horizontal line is the only
> indication that indicates the separation between consecutive dives. This
> makes it a bit more difficult to distinguish between consecutive dives in
> Subsurface.

There is no doubt that Subsurface-mobile needs more careful "theming" or
whatever word you'd like to use for that. I am not having any illusions
that I am a good designer or that I might have a good eye for these
things. So help is always welcome.

/D


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