Maybe I'm still stuck on the old UI, but I find that these button captions don't really speak to me:
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:
Go to
Pan to
View
An icon, maybe something like a small white rectangle inside a much bigger unfilled rectangle
About this Data Set
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
Maybe I'm still stuck on the old UI, but I find that these button captions don't really speak to me:
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:
About this Data Set
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.