UI Suggestions [ ]: Analysis Report - Retry count display handling

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This was motivated by the fact that the retry count on the tab display is only initially displayed. Visiting the Retry panel causes the count display to disappear.

Additionally providing the user a challenge of solving the retries and visually indicating the fact would enhance the user's experience.

Suggestions:

1. Always display retry count on Retry tab
2. Retry Count should be the count for the current board view perspective
3. Indicate retries solved via count display color change to green.
4. Permit solving again. If solved, clear solutions via double click on green count icon
5. Consider displaying both counts on the Retry tab and maintaining solved status on both. If implemented item 2 in could indicate current board perspective with a larger score icon.


Here is an example game, starting from black's perspective. Black has 4 retries, white 6.


1. Always display retry count on Retry tab
After visiting the retry tab the count is no longer displayed:

It should never look so:


2. Retry Count should be the count for the current board view perspective.

Flipping the board view to white's perspective should change the retry count. Currently is doesn't change. Here is black's [perspective  with a count of 4



and white's perspective, still with a count of 4

It should change to 6

 



3. Indicate retries solved via count display color change to green.

It would be great to provide feedback and a goal of solving the retries. From Black's perspective:

Upon successfully completing the 4 retries the count would change color:



4. Permit solving again. If solved, clear solutions via double click on green count icon.



5. Consider displaying both counts on the Retry tab and maintaining solved status on both. If implemented item 2 in could indicate current board perspective with a larger score icon.

Avatar of AthenaTheChessCub

It might actually be a good idea

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Note implementing this assumes the Retry dropdown choice selection would be changed when the board is flipped. So that visiting retry after flipping the board to white's perspective would be presenting white's retries. This is currently not the behavior.

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AthenaTheChessCub wrote:

It might actually be a good idea

Thank you, I think....

Avatar of jdcannon

I like the ideas. I am floating it with the rest of the product team. I am not sure about the double icons. Might be a touch confusing, but I like the rest. 

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jdcannon wrote:

I like the ideas. I am floating it with the rest of the product team. I am not sure about the double icons. Might be a touch confusing, but I like the rest. 

Agreed, I'm not fully sold on point 5 as well.

However, it does provide visual feedback on the solution status of both black's and white's retries. Seeing both provides 2 goal targets. Goal oriented training/learning motivates many.

I originally didn't have the icon size associated with the board perspective, A bit less confusing:


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Apparently the entire retires tool is in the midst of a redesign and I am not sure it will even be in a tab like this so this might all turn out to be mute.