Usability - faded information

Here is an example of what I consider a really poor interface. The biblical people section of the passage guide.

I ran a passage guide for Genesis 28 in the biblical people section has a number of headings and then a number of completely faded drawings. The use of faded drawing seems to be without reason in this case. (I really want to say silly, but I held my tongue). Why are these drawings faded at all? They are the results we are expecting to use, they are not background information at this point. Using this logic, everything on but the headers of the passage guide should be faded so as to be unreadable.

However, even if they were darker, they would still be useless. The only way they become useful is to move your curser over them and wait for the pop up help. I think you should either have the pop up help always on, below each drawing, or replace the small diagrams with just the text from the pop up.

Finally, when the pop up help does appear, it shows the following random placement of the drawings:

The largest drawing under the Jacob heading is actually titled Abraham in the pop up help.
The largest drawing under the Abraham heading is actually titled Esau in the pop up help
The largest drawing under the Isaac heading is actually title Jacob in the pop up help

Wouldn't it make more sence if the largest drawing under each heading was actually the drawing for that biblical person?

The more I use the interface, the more I become frustrated with the use of faded stuff.

Regards,

Clinton

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Simon’s Brother

Here is an example of what I consider a really poor interface. The biblical people section of the passage guide.

I ran a passage guide for Genesis 28 in the biblical people section has a number of headings and then a number of completely faded drawings. The use of faded drawing seems to be without reason in this case.

I'm not as concerned with the faded images....they appear to be just placeholders you don't get any value from them till you open them in their own window...so removing the images all together and just having the data that is shown in the pop-up would be ok. That said release notes for beta 2 indicates infomation displays for Biblical Facts are incomplete.. what that means I'm not sure.

Finally, when the pop up help does appear, it shows the following random placement of the drawings:

The largest drawing under the Jacob heading is actually titled Abraham in the pop up help.

The largest drawing under the Abraham heading is actually titled Esau in the pop up help

The largest drawing under the Isaac heading is actually title Jacob in the pop up help

Wouldn't it make more sence if the largest drawing under each heading was actually the drawing for that biblical person?

Yes this is a problem... and when you open drawing the inconsistency continues... whether all this though relates to comment on release notes it is unclearr.