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"Blue line" widget unnecessarily compressed #29

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icaria36 opened this issue Jul 9, 2013 · 0 comments
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"Blue line" widget unnecessarily compressed #29

icaria36 opened this issue Jul 9, 2013 · 0 comments

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icaria36 commented Jul 9, 2013

Those widgets with the blue line tell so much... in so little space that thay almost miss their goal. I needed to sit and look at one of them to really undersand what was going on there, after days seeing them floating around but not finding the time to look deeper.

I understand they need to be small, but here are some ideas for some better organization. At the expense of just a little bigger size, or perhaps just the same surface, more squared:

  • One full line for the title, and make it self-understandable. "Sent"... Sent what? Maybe obvious to you and to the reader familiar with that dashboard, definitely confusing for all the rest. Currently title and graph compete for horizontal width: just end that competition giving to both the 100% width of the widget.
  • 100% width for the blue line, as explained above.
  • 3 lines for week / month / year. Now that long line is hard to digest when you are not familiar with it.
  • Just a clear arrow up / down. Now what you see is basically a black circle and you must pay attention to the direction of the arrow. Half way to a visit to the optometrist. :)
  • Change the sequence: arrow + week + volume + percentage
  • Leave spaces between "Week:" and $VALUE.
  • Keep the fonts consistent. Now there is different font sizes and also itallics. Having each entry in one line you don't need to make the eyes dance.

Note that by having each entry in one line you can reduce the width of the widget. This has the potential of allowing more width to the bigger graphs, making them wider and more comprehensible.

Note also that by having widgets with a higher height you don't steal any space to the neighbors since there is currently an odd white space in the middle of the screen.

In any case you might want to have these widgets at the right, where it's fine if there is a white space underneath. This way you also have a more traditional/balanced layout with two column-like areas left and right and the wider area of content in the middle.

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