[thelist] re: Please give me UI modification suggestions!

Tom Dell'Aringa pixelmech at yahoo.com
Tue Jul 9 13:13:01 CDT 2002


--- Brian Johnson <brian at bnia.com> wrote:
> Gary Bland wrote:
>
> > Tom Dell'Aringa wrote:
> >
> >> Here's a shot with some values above the bars (with some of the
> other
> >> stuff taken off for clarity) using Silkscreen 8pt.
> >>
> >> http://www.doctormusic.net/tom/feedback2.gif
> >>
> >> The values are awfully small which bothers me. But certainly I
> could
> >> do nothing bigger, if I am going to put values on them at all
> (if
> >> that is even a good solution)...
> >
> I agree that the font is small.  Perhaps some thing bolder?
>
> I don't know how sophisticated your users are, but perhaps your
> scale
> could be tagged in terms of pi. Say 45 = pi/2 180 = 2pi.  Or maybe
> in
> multiples of pi so you just have 1/2, 1, 2, 4 as scale markers.
> And I'd
> use pi glyph, of course.
>
> Or perhaps, in terms of cos(angle) using square root glyphs.  So
> that
> 0deg = sqrt(4)/2 (=1.0000)
> 30deg = sqrt(3)/2 (=0.8660)
> 45deg = sqrt(2)/2 (=0.7071)
> 60deg = sqrt(1)/2 (=0.5000)
> 90deg = sqrt(0)/2 (=0.0000)
> etc.
>
> Using sin might be more natural since the sqrt(x) would increase
> with
> the angle.
>
> Probably too silly, but I'd dig it.  I'm also a nerdy engineer!
>
> I'm probably not helping terribly much, but that's what popped in
> my head.
>
> -Brian

Yep, too geeky! ;) Heck, I didn't understand most of it. Anyway our
users could be literally anyone - a plumber, an architect, a foreman,
a salesman, so it has to be universally understood.

Tom

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