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Users missing the stars for D/T on the map sheet #15505
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How about putting it in the same line, eg: |
how about "D 5.0 / T 2.0 - ***** / **"? That way it's easier to handle overflow and it also ensures that texts are always in the same position (where the user expects them to be). Or maybe show the marker in line with the rating instead of the stars? My personal vote would be for not re-adding the stars, I also removed them in DetailsActivity in my builds - but I have my own builds, so I don't have any strong opinion on this ;-) |
Sounds like a good space saving ideas and would allow to visualize D/T at first sight. |
If you are considering coloring, please keep in mind that nearly 10 in 100 men are colorblind or have at least a color vision deficiency, which makes it at least pretty hard to distinguish esp. between green, brown and red. With the map's D/T icons that's no big deal, cause there is additionally the different "fill level", but with completely filled rectangles, which just differ in color, they will gain nothing. Therefore I would suggest a similar solution like with the 5+5 stars, which are either filled or just outlined. And if stars are not possible for whatever reason (what about UTF-8?), then maybe just 5+5 squares, either full, half, or not at all filled. |
For reference: We could use the following code points:
but need to check first whether they are all available on our targeted API versions, especially the half/half variant. If chars are not available on targeted systems, we should stay with our icons for now. |
Unicode would be suboptimal as they Look different depending on the font (vendor), for such a prominent feature we should be in control what it looks like. |
What about forcing the font for this string? |
Thought these are not possible in the bottom sheeet ... *wonder* |
this would consume two lines of precious space, for an information that's already there, though just in textual form I played a bit with putting D/T stars into a single line: But this probably wraps on most devices (smaller screen and/or larger fonts), then taking up same space as on cache details page, but being less readable in that case: (Sure, one could make wrap the text together with its accompanying rating stars, but it still consumes too much space then, IMHO.) Thus I would say, pursue one of the following variants:
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My vote goes to circle marker. Small but has all the info at a glance, it's a familiar element and compatible with colour blind. |
I don't really agree that space is such an issue for the bottom sheet, IMO there's plenty of map room left above it, so one line more or less should not be a big problem. And although I admittedly don't know how the bottom sheet behaves on smaller displays (6.8" over here, but are there really still displays out there with less than, let's say 4"?), thus there should always be enough space above the bottom sheet to click in the map (in order to close the bottom sheet again). And for much more than that even I don't use the map space above it - and over here the map space is even bigger than the space the bottom sheet occupies right now. Thus I still favor the two-lines-with-text-plus-stars solution for three reasons:
But if the general opinion is that space is nonetheless a problem, then I would also opt for the circle marking. |
I discussed with a bunch of users, which are a bit disappointed regarding the change from popup to bottom sheet.
While at first they claimed a smaller font (which turned out not to be the case) later it turned out, what they were really missing is the better readability of D/T represented by stars.
Some users now instead use the D/T-icons on the map, but its still not the same for them.
I have to somewhat agree, that it easier/faster to recognize D- and T-values if they are presented graphically.
Not sure if we want and can find a solution which is more graphical for D/T but still compact for the bottom sheet.
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