RFC: Subsurface Statistics tab

[♠ Jordan Reiser ♠]

I think the information is designed clearly but q bit dense and is in need
of some modernization. I’m just becoming familiar with it and haven’t had a
chance to review the app in its current form on desktop or mobile yet (just
seen screenshots so far). I have some initial ideas though ,

 1. for example does the user need to see everything all at once or can
things be shown only when the user needs it, thinking of collapsing
information inside of different interactive access controls, eg onclick
panels, accordions, sliders etc., basically leveraging invisible space as
much as possible so the user can focus on a few things at a time.

2. Given the above maybe there is a way to combine the information
contained in the tabs to lessen the amount of tabs needed, just rethinking
the nav and consolidating similar areas may help it feel like less even
though its the same amount of info.

3. Visualizing stats wherever possible, eg. gas consumption can be
visualized against the total perhaps, things like this.

Give me a day or so to take a hard look and can spin you guys up something
cool

Noob question i have right now is, can users log data only manually is it
possible to do semi or fully automatically? This app reminds me of a
snowboarding app i once had, does similar things going to look for some
inspo there.



On Mon, Nov 25, 2019 at 5:53 PM Dirk Hohndel <dirk at hohndel.org> wrote:

>
> On Nov 24, 2019, at 10:09 AM, Willem Ferguson <
> willemferguson at zoology.up.ac.za> wrote:
>
> Attached a screenshot of a concept of rearranging the statistics tab. The
> old design was not space efficient. This one provides all the information
> in the statistics tab of the present master. Important thing is that it
> frees a fairly large area at the bottom of the tab. The plan is to use this
> for more detailed graphical analyses such as bar charts of continuous
> variables and pie charts of categorical variables. The text box on the
> right with gas consumption information gets a scroll bar when the tab is
> made more narrow. Sometimes, with deco dives having 5 or 6 gases, the text
> in the text box can exceed the depth of the  box. In this case a scroll bar
> appears and allows viewing all the text.
>
> Would this be workable at all?
>
>
>
> I'm always sad when one of us comes up with an idea for the UI and there
> are no comments at all.
> There are several hundred people on this mailing list, most of whom I
> think use the software. So it feels odd that no one would care.
>
> To me it looks less sophisticated. It looks very 1990-s :-)
> Yes, definitely much more space efficient. But I really hope that we can
> come up with something that is more attractive than this...
>
> Jordan, this is where someone with a design background might be extremely
> welcome... but I don't want to put you on the spot :-) :-) :-)
>
> /D
>
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