TestFlight feedback for Subsurface-mobile. Layout

Dirk Hohndel dirk at hohndel.org
Fri Apr 1 14:41:23 PDT 2016


On Fri, Apr 01, 2016 at 04:30:03PM -0500, Dirk Hohndel wrote:
> 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.

Oh, and that help can always be in the form of a visually better mockup
that I can then work on matching...

/D


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