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Node.js implementation, using Azure as a backend, of a system for Global Distributed Tracking, a free-of-charge, free-software system for building up a provenance or history of objects/assets/devices.
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Compare new system to old system in terms of GUI quality #139

Open RobertLRead opened 2 months ago

noramoor2007 commented 1 month ago

Issue #139 - Comparing Old to New System.pdf

RobertLRead commented 1 month ago

This is good work, but it is hard to use because you used a PDF. Can you place the text in the comments in the issue itself? This will make it easier for me to break it up into issues to assign to others.

RobertLRead commented 1 month ago

@noramoor2007 proposes:

Since users no longer have access to the list of sample devices, it's challenging to view the devices that have already been created. I propose offering users the option to create containers and devices in either a public or a private domain. The public domain would cater to less sensitive information, like tracking the amount of trash collected, while the private domain would accommodate more confidential and higher-priority devices. For instance, those used for communication in critical contexts like in Ukraine.

I don't want to implement this because it is going backward, in a sense, and making our system more complicated. However, if we created read-only devices, which were locked for new additions to the history (similar to the "expiration" concept I made earlier), then we could list a set of sample devices through pure documentation---with no code changes. I will ask Victoria about this.

RobertLRead commented 1 month ago

@noramoor2007 proposes creating an informative "hover" text. However, to my knowledge "hover" does not work well on phones. @ninalahoti is there a mobile-friendly alternative? Is there something we can do here to allow the reader to get a defintion of the words we use in the GUI like "device"?

RobertLRead commented 1 month ago

@noramoor2007 proposes that we change the button wording from "Submit" to something more specific like "Create Container Group". She further proposes uses white text on a colored background, but I am going to take no action on that, since that will be part of the style guide as per @ninalahoti. I created an issue #145 to improve the text---"Submit" is not a good button action label.