掲示板 Forums - New schedule layout

I don’t like the new location of the study button, it was easier to click when it was on the right side instead of the left. It might be opposite for left handed people so it might be nice to be able to choose if that’s not too complicated.

I wanted to say thank you for all of the feedback - I feel like I clearly didn't consider everything enough when designing this, and I hope I can improve it.

I also agree that I liked being able to tell at a glance which schedules were finished for the day by the color of the button, that’s the only thing I dislike being changed. It just feels more confusing and visually overwhelming without that to figure out what I need to do next

EDIT: Sorry I didn’t see the last post when I made this, I do like it with the button styling

May I suggest something like this?

Hmm, have you considered having the schedule names wrap to a second line? What would be the narrowest screen width pixel wise?

It can wrap all of them on small screens but to me that’s fine? I have a small screen so that I can actually reach the left side, and the new arrangement puts the things I want most in the uncollapsed slots. I like the change of names because I’m often flipping learn new on and off and want to easily see which way I left it. You can see all of the statuses in this screenshot (and also that today’s font doesn’t match the UI very well for Arabic numerals):

The number font issue is known and unfixable (it's done by the external font manager).

While I'm not rejecting name changes outright, keep in mind that most users are not level 400 or even 80, but 1-10 (and of course, I hope to make it easier for them to keep using it). Any name change needs to be taken from the perspective of a user not intimately knowing that usage to begin with, so something like "Focus" or "New" would not qualify.

I don't like Review (I wish I did) because many people would consider the day-to-day quizzes of renshuu as "review", so it needs something extra. Focused Review is super clear, but not. Extra Review is a bit shorter. Review+ <-- maybe?

I don't know how narrow the narrowest screen is, but I tried to take your feedback and did a mock up to see if what it would look like in a narrower space. (I don't know what the exact font is so I just used a random font...that on hindsight looks a bit more crammed than the actual Renshuu font, so please take that into consideration)

1. I added a second line under the # of reviews, # to learn to show the pace in actual numbers, because I think it would be helpful to see what the pace actually is than just seeing "custom" or "normal" or "fast" because seeing 6 new words a quiz feels very fast for me while it might feel slow for others. Moving the pace information up here would free up some room in the link lines, while adding more clarity.

2. Having two lines of information regarding the pace and number of reviews for the day would make enough room to fit in the Blue study button next to it, yet under the name of the schedule so as to not get in the way of longer schedule names.

3. I made the example show a wrapping schedule name that would allow smaller screens to support longer schedule names.

4. For the additional links, since having shorter link names can compromise clarity I tried to maintain the longer "Focused Review" name while not having the rest of the links off screen by having two rows of links rather than the three dots. I made the second row in a grey rather than the same color link as the Focused Review so that Focused Review will stand out more as it will probably be used more frequently than edits.

5. I also changed the color of the bars between the links to a lighter grey so the eye would focus more on the links than the dividers.

6. The last example could fit in an even smaller width screen if we took off the purple W square that represents Word schedules and instead made the color of the schedule name for words that purple and change the color of the schedule names of kanji schedules to orange, etc. Alternatively, perhaps the background color for word schedules could be purple and the background color of kanji schedules could be orange?

7. Perhaps the answer isn't to add so many links for editing the terms or pace right under the schedule, but to make the settings page easier to use for newer users? I remember how I was really confused by the settings page when I first started using Renshuu (but I really really really love how many customizable options there are, it was just a lot to take in at first).

I was afraid of that Well, I just wanted to give it my best shot. I would have felt amiss if I didn't at least try Thanks for indulging me

I think you could gain a great deal of flexibility in the layout by moving View Terms up into the previous line. Suggested wording:

• X terms, Y to review, Z to learn