On Monday 09 August 2010, Tim François wrote: > A big start would be to explain the two major features of the UI:
The way I feel about UIs is if you have to "explain" anything then you've already failed, so... > what the colours mean (actually writing "a green area means: blah, blah") I thought this would be pretty discoverable - it actually gives you a sort of legend in the detail view, showing you a coloured bullet and a textual description of the match. Surely the pattern of use would go "what does that colour mean?" *click* - look at information it gave you - "ah." > and what the squares and circles mean. And with that I mean explaining on the > webpage, not here in the mailing list. I should probably make it more obvious that you're switching between views. There isn't a lot of space for long textual descriptions. Perhaps the best thing for me to do is write an FAQ page. > Oh, and an option to turn off all the 'correct' green squares/circles - > surely that's just wasting resources for the average user? Minimal I would say. You can switch non-authoritative modes to show bad matches first, in which case it will usually show just red circles. But seeing as this is principally just an interface to OS Locator, I think it should always show everything from OS Locator whenever it can. robert. _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
