jrossausiscom
5 years agoQrew Assistant Captain
Please do not force this new Report Style from the beta on us
Guys, this beta update is probably one of the worst UI changes I've ever seen. Almost no color, no contrast, and the general flow to your eyes is totally disrupted. All this is going to do it cause a loss of overall speed and productively for no reason. There is no reason to do this when there are tons of other items that actually need change. A better form creation UI to name one.
Everything about it just goes against the user:
The Report UI is the most crucial thing to using QB, the current view is nearly perfect and does NOT need to be overhauled. Lastly, why are changes like this just forced onto users? What about users with vision problems who already struggle with contrast?
How about we have the ability to choose the view or customize the view? That would be great.
At the BARE MINIMUM, please do NOT remove the current Table UI.
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John Ross
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Everything about it just goes against the user:
- Color highlighting is basically useless. If I want light colors, I will code in light colors. What is the point of this? I just cannot get my head behind this. Might as well remove color coding.
- The header bar looks horrible. It's light gray and almost blends into everything. The strong contrast on the old view makes your eyes snap right to it. The text is no longer vertically centered in the middle as it should be, and is smaller. Why? Again, the loss of contrast cripples things and slows you down.
- URL buttons look more like badges than buttons. Why? Make a button, look like a button. The original isn't great, but the new one is just terrible.
- Generally vertical column borders help, but in QuickBase you are always thinking in terms of Records. A row is a record, so it was better to NOT have the vertical borders to help your eyes see each row as a continuous record. Now it looks like a bunch of separate cells. Not helpful at all.
- The alternating gray highlighting looks alright, but it would be better to have hard solid horizontal borders as well to help keep your eyes in track. Remove the vertical borders, and add horizontal borders.
The Report UI is the most crucial thing to using QB, the current view is nearly perfect and does NOT need to be overhauled. Lastly, why are changes like this just forced onto users? What about users with vision problems who already struggle with contrast?
How about we have the ability to choose the view or customize the view? That would be great.
At the BARE MINIMUM, please do NOT remove the current Table UI.
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John Ross
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