FEEDBACK WANTED: New Resource Toolbar on Desktop

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  • DMB
    DMB Member Posts: 13,934 ✭✭✭✭
    edited 11:37AM

    We've been chatting about the 'new menu' for quite some time. In normal app design, getting that much push back would suggest the design needs work. Saying it's 'discoverable' (which it is) just illustrates the poor previous designs (and the app, overall).

    The funny part, is that the 'discovered' people now how to trudge thru the menus like the already-discovered people. I don't view that as a big win for FL. The obvious solution (for subscribers!!) is customized menus.

    But Mark says it's for everybody … which means not me … turned my updates off earlier. Happy as a clam.

    Now to be fair, I'm also on the 'Kindle Classic' on my Mac … Amazon did just the opposite of FL … hid everything. Yesterday, I downloaded a sample to 'Classic' and it refused it. And I refused the book. No need for their designs.

    "If myth is ideology in narrative form, then scholarship is myth with footnotes." B. Lincolm 1999.

  • Josh Bernard
    Josh Bernard Member Posts: 13 ✭✭
    https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1356673#Comment_1356673

    I use a mouse, but more clicks just means more work. I understand having features easier to find, but I feel like you can do both. Even just allowing us to pin the stuff we want would go a long way. There's no reason I need to click search to bring up a search bar that takes the entire width of the screen. Let me put interlinear, zoom, and whatever else I want on the same bar with it. Right now the "home" bar has 5 options that takes up very little space. Search I have already stated is just a bar with a few selectors (waste of space and time), notes has 4. Formatting is probably the one that actually makes sense having it's own tab. View is egregious, should just be in with home.

    That's not even to speak about how some of the options work. Interlinear used to work with a single click. Now you have to click to view, which isn't where I would expect it. Click on interlinear, toggle interlinear on, the choose my options or reverse interlinear. That's 4 or more click for something that could be one. It's just frustrating.

    You mention showing new stuff to new users. I am a power user of logos and it took me 20 minutes after the update to find it originally. I don't think this layout really helps people discover stuff. Good tech design isn't "hide stuff behind more menus" it's make things more obvious and easier to use. I feel like it was 1 step forward and two steps sideways.

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