Overthinking on Subsurface mobile app UX

Dirk Hohndel dirk at hohndel.org
Wed Jun 21 07:14:57 PDT 2017


> On Jun 20, 2017, at 23:30, Willem Ferguson <willemferguson at zoology.up.ac.za> wrote:
>>> 5) Whatever layout and colour scheme we change to, I think one should keep
>>> in mind that one day we will be able to collapse the trips so that only trip
>>> headers will be visible onscreen. We need a layout now that will not need
>>> any re-design when we reach that stage.
>> I hope we'll find a good implementation that allows us to bring folding
>> trips back. And I think the current design would work for that.
> 
> If collapsing a trip becomes possible, it would probably be necessary to add information for the month and year of that trip. Else one would need to open the trip to see the date. Also the separation between trip headers would be important, possibly a thin horizontal white line?

I played with having the dates in there before I changed the colors; at that point the header looked too similar to a dive; that's no longer a problem, so I guess that would be easy to do.
The thin white line (or something like that) will definitely be needed, I agree.

Thanks for all the input!

/D


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