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Anonymous 15/11/24(Tue)01:28 No. 18007 ID: 6fa25b

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I'd say that both you (in terms of feature availability) and PPPPU (in terms of characters and animations) have completely outgrown the original UI you used for the interactive versions. It's getting unwieldy with terrible discoverability because you're cramming in more than that UI style can handle, and attempting to fix the growing UI issues with duct tape and band-aids. The two sidebars with simple buttons were nice and minimalist, but they have been utterly overwhelmed.

Cramming more and more stuff into the help screen and shunting more keyboard-only commands into obscure button icons isn't going to fix the problem - you really need to tear out the current UI and build a whole new one that's designed from the beginning to handle this kind of feature set. The feature list has grown tremendously since you started, but the UI hasn't.

I'm no UX designer, but I'd suggest maybe moving most of the featureset into modal dialogs that you can do detailed config in? It ruins the minimalist design and covers the animation, which is a shame, but both the discoverability and complexity problems are solved if you bring the sidebar buttons and music selector back to their original simplicity and move all the complicated configuration (like disabling characters and setting up music switching behavior) into a dialog. That way, people can use the buttons to click through and see which characters and animations and music they like, use the dialog to set up the general handsfree behavior of the flash, and then sit back and watch the show, fine-tuning things with the buttons if needed.





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