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aaronbieber / stairwaze

The Copley Escalators mobile application, in React Native
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[Usability] Create logical grouping of escalators. #14

Open jjziv opened 7 years ago

jjziv commented 7 years ago

For faster navigation, I think it would be useful to group the escalators by area. For example: 1F -> ABP -> Up/Down, 1F -> Fogo -> Up/Down, 2F -> Gap -> Up/Down, etc.

aaronbieber commented 7 years ago

I'm interested in other ideas for how to better organize the information. I think it will take a fair bit of work to implement any reorganization because of how the data from the server is structured (which I can also change, but again, work), so I want to make sure I'm implementing something that is really better for everyone.

The main intended use case is to open the app to see whether escalators on your path are working and/or to immediately report a specific escalator as broken. I think we may actually need two different presentations for those two use cases.

If you have to tap through more than one navigation step to get to a single escalator's current status, that will break the first use case, but might be great for the second one.

jjziv commented 7 years ago

Could you achieve the second thing by adding an ! or something to the escalator description that would let you report it as down from the general view? The second one is a hammer. screenshot_20170424-162738 screenshot_20170424-162738_hammer

aaronbieber commented 7 years ago

I like this idea and I'll probably do it.