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Multi-Layout Rectangular Design Analysis
- Visibility
- A user opening a layout by name wouldn't know what is present on the layout. This could eventually be improved by providing a thumbnail version of what the layout may look like.
- It may not be visible that the user can drag visualisations around by hoding a tap.
- Efficiency
- Saving and opening a layout can save time for the user who regularly uses the same setup or who needs to swithch between several different setups.
- Error Prevention
- Also, we plan to make the layout description standartized (XML or YAML) in order to allow users to create layouts automatical
- Error prevention
- Errors are typically accidental deletions of layouts or visualisations. To prevent layout deletion a confirmation dialogue may be shown to the user (since deleting a layout will be reasonably rare operation). Deleting a visualization will not be specificially prevented - instead it will be really easy to recover from it - just add the deleted visualisation again. We might also include an undo-delete option in the menu.
- Learnability
- The 2D shape of the layout will help users distinguish between layouts easier - without the need of reading all the labels
Single-Layout List Design Analysis
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