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My Home Energy Planner - Open Source home energy assessment software based on emoncms framework + openbem
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Improve layout, clarity of left hand side panes for Master, Scenario 1 etc #323

Closed ajnorthcott closed 4 years ago

ajnorthcott commented 7 years ago

It could improve greatly the usability of the tool and avoid inputting into the wrong scenario by improving the design of the left hand side pane / options. So it is much clearer which scenario is being entered. Eg the panes could be colour coded - or made into clearer windows with tabs at the top. Additionally the button to apply measure - could be dynamic and show "Apply measure to Scen 1".

Overall the tool good be clearer about applying and viewing the measures applied. Without having to create a report each time to view the outcome.

ghost commented 7 years ago

This is a bit of a design issue that it might be worth getting some design input for - possibly from Fieldwork or someone similar?

cagabi commented 6 years ago

Could be enough with making the text of the selected scenario a bit bolder, adding a border and/or fading the scenarios not slected

cagabi commented 6 years ago

Hi,

It could improve greatly the usability of the tool and avoid inputting into the wrong scenario by improving the design of the left hand side pane / options. So it is much clearer which scenario is being entered.

I have been thinking on this for a while and (despite I don't use the tool as much as you both) and I cannot think on how changing the panes on the left would help. What I have done so far is:

The apply measure button becomes too big when adding the text to it: "Apply measure to Scen 1".

Overall the tool good be clearer about applying and viewing the measures applied. Without having to create a report each time to view the outcome.

The "revert to master" text kind of does the job but it's not implemented for everything that can have a measure applied to. Do you think it is worth to do the "revert to master" for everything or would it be enough just adding a text saying "Measured applied"?

cagabi commented 6 years ago

The "Measure applied" feature was also requested in #119

cagabi commented 6 years ago

I have added the "Measure applied" everywhere. Can you please check if you are happy with the changes I did with regards to identifying the scenario

ghost commented 4 years ago

Superseded - general UI review to take place in V3 by April 2020.