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InfoVis 2015 IVMOOC Globi Explorer
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Feedback from Colleague (Brian) #28

Open psmacmur opened 9 years ago

psmacmur commented 9 years ago

Documenting all the feedback from my colleague here, then will split this up into issues as time permits and after some team discussion:

Overall

danielabar commented 9 years ago

Sigh, this is disheartening "Doesn't seem like the right viz for the goals" and "Network is really weird"

psmacmur commented 9 years ago

Yeah those aren't exactly his words, well at least the first one isn't, but he clearly thought what we had was pretty useless.

Oh well...

Peter

On Mon, Apr 6, 2015 at 6:38 PM, Daniela Baron notifications@github.com wrote:

Sigh, this is disheartening "Doesn't seem like the right viz for the goals" and "Network is really weird"

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danielabar commented 9 years ago

This is what I was worried about, there's no way we have time at this point to totally change direction.

psmacmur commented 9 years ago

This is true. We can clean up a few easy things that come up in all the feedback, and that's about it. E.g. maybe redo the card layout to be 1 side again, tweak the colors in the network, etc., but there really isn't time for the overhaul it'd need at this point IRL.

Guess we'll have to stick to coding... so much for our budding careers as information designers or data scientists.

Peter

On Mon, Apr 6, 2015 at 6:50 PM, Daniela Baron notifications@github.com wrote:

This is what I was worried about, there's no way we have time at this point to totally change direction.

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danielabar commented 9 years ago

Yeah, that sounds reasonable to do small tweaks. As for the infovis, guess that's all part of the course, learning. On the bright side, the feedback I got from Sean is more actionable, and less soul destroying :-p

psmacmur commented 9 years ago

Hmm I doing this mockup of the "Interaction" tab that we'd talked about upgrading the map tab too, and now I'm thinking we should just drop it and go with Stefan's mockup that puts the map in the network tab. Especially based on the feedback that it's not integrated enough. Is that feasible?

Peter

On Mon, Apr 6, 2015 at 7:17 PM, Daniela Baron notifications@github.com wrote:

Yeah, that sounds reasonable to do small tweaks. As for the infovis, guess that's all part of the course, learning. On the bright side, the feedback I got from Sean is more actionable, and less soul destroying :-p

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danielabar commented 9 years ago

Yeah let's pretend the Map view as a separate tab no longer exists. And put the map below the graph in Network tab. Then we won't need a separate Interaction tab.

In fact with Sean's idea, the main/home view wouldn't have any navigation tabs at all (except possibly an About tab).

Then when user somehow selects to view the network for the Source taxon, then they get taken to the Network page with an alternate view of the nav. This nav would display the Source taxon name, a link back to Explore so they can explore other species.

The good news about this is we already have the scaffolding in place to have different nav views for each main content switch, so that part in and of itself should be easy.

psmacmur commented 9 years ago

Brilliant.

In interest of not throwing babies out with bath water, I mightn't delete the tabs per se yet. I mean, delete Map and Play, but the ones we use can be there, just to show up front what all we can do. For now, maybe each with a default for demo purposes or something, if that's easy.

Some of Brian's suggestions were actionable, too. Based on his recommendation of avoiding dropdowns, and in interest of not throwing out my entire saturday's work, i'm wondering if "flip" becomes "more interactions" with only the selected (from the form) interaction on the front (e.g. eats) along with the other links (Site, Network), with a longer interaction list on the back.

Wondering if we can also narrow down the interaction list, since some don't seem to have any data anymore. That might be a case of asking Jorrit to remove deprecated interactions from the API? At any rate, only our favourites should go onto the backs of the cards (in this new idea)... does Stefan's analysis give any indication of which interactions are well represented?

Brian did also ask about the About tab, before seeing it, although he had no idea what should be there.

Peter

On Mon, Apr 6, 2015 at 7:37 PM, Daniela Baron notifications@github.com wrote:

Yeah let's pretend the Map view as a separate tab no longer exists. And put the map below the graph in Network tab. Then we won't need a separate Interaction tab.

In fact with Sean's idea, the main/home view wouldn't have any navigation tabs at all (except possibly an About tab).

Then when user somehow selects to view the network for the Source taxon, then they get taken to the Network page with an alternate view of the nav. This nav would display the Source taxon name, a link back to Explore so they can explore other species.

The good news about this is we already have the scaffolding in place to have different nav views for each main content switch, so that part in and of itself should be easy.

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/danielabar/globi-proto/issues/28#issuecomment-90284895 .

danielabar commented 9 years ago

Map and Play are gone for sure.

About can stay, that should be a constant in all the nav versions we will have. We'll think of some appropriate content later. At the very least some links to the globi/eol, api stuff, maybe version number, link to source on github.

Network should also go, because Sean said it was really confusing, given that he's selected a taxon in Explore, if he clicks directly to Network, it shows something else completely.

He also said it was really confusing to have the interactions (like eats, eaten by etc.) both in the dropdown on explore page and in the cards. However, it should be possible from a card, to "select" it as the new search point.

As for the interaction dropdown list, we could also ask Stefan to find what are the most frequent ones with results, and just manually populate the dropdown list with the common ones. A risk is if they names change in the API, then it won't work anymore. Yes we could also ask Jorrit if its possible for the API to return the most "populous" ones, not sure if that's a valid word.

So back to the cards (yes the flipping is really cool), so here's what should go on there, let's see how to distribute between front and back.

I'm also speculating on two different kinds of cards: A card with the taxon you're searching on, and the interaction results cards.

Taxon Card (this is the subject of your search)

Interaction Results Card: