TerriaJS / terriajs

A library for building rich, web-based geospatial data platforms.
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Unintuitive workbench button captions (zoom, about, remove) #2089

Open stevage opened 8 years ago

stevage commented 8 years ago

Maybe I'm still stuck on the old UI, but I find that these button captions don't really speak to me:

screenshot 2016-09-16 11 03 32

Each of those three buttons does something I want to do fairly often, but I find myself kind of slowly hunting for them.

Zoom to Extent

IMHO, "extent" is really a GIS term that doesn't mean much to most people. Better options:

I think the (i) ℹ symbol worked really well. These four words somehow seem too much. Perhaps just "About..."?

Its placement also doesn't seem to be quite where I'm expecting to look, either.

Remove ⊖ (-)

I'm never really convinced by the use of the minus symbol for deleting or removal. I think a X would be more intuitive and more quickly catch the eye. I always seem to go looking for it next to the ▼ minimise button, then have to wander downwards.

You might argue that that's not the typical semantics of the X (ie, close this view, but don't change anything), but I've noticed this kind of use popping up. For instance, VideoStream uses the X to mean "stop playing this video" and it's very intuitive.

chloeleichen commented 8 years ago

@philipgrimmett