Composer 2 Feedback:
It's clearly designed for larger screens than the laptops than our organization provides. I can't see the button to edit a photo caption while actually looking at the photo caption because of how things are scaled and where the button is placed.
Screenshot 1: Looking at the photo and its photo caption in the new interface.
Screenshot 2: I have to scroll up so I can no longer seen the caption to see the button that lets me edit the caption.
Screenshot 3: Old interface lets me see the "edit info" button while looking at the info I actually want to edit. also, the button to edit the caption now says "override metadata" instead of "edit" which is not intuitive at all
Heather Young
Hi there! Heather submitted this comment on my behalf after I shared it with her internally at OPB. The challenge with changing to a smaller text size is that we don't all have young eyes. We have folks who are already struggling to use the ArcXP Composer interface at 100% because fonts are small. I have vision that is 20-20 when corrected with glasses, but there are limits to how well I can see when I make things smaller. I need to be able to read the words on the screen while I work.
Also, Composer is the tool reporters use to file stories or update them from the field, and that editors use to make after hours breaking news updates. That means that, at times, we are making edits on our phones. I hesitate to look at how this interface works on my iPhone 11.
However, I'm able to do most of my work at my OPB-assigned laptop. I took those screenshots in Chrome Version 123.0.3612.124 official build (64-bit)on my work-assigned Dell laptop running Windows 10 Enterprise OS. My monitor is presently scaled to 150% zoom and has a 1920x1080 resolution. I can't find the screen size in my device settings, by my tape measure says it's 13.5 inches.
Hi Heather! Thanks for submitting this idea. It definitely does seem pretty tight. Would you mind sharing the specifications for the device and browser so we can pass along to our design team as we make iterative improvements? Here are a few things that might help in the mean time:
Users can change to a smaller text size (in the dropdown on the footer of the page) which should help with spacing
Users (via chrome) can use keyboard shortcuts (CMD
+or CMD-) to change the browser zoom resolution.Could you also check what resolution that was at?
Here's a video attached, walking through those
As for the use of Override vs Edit, this was a specific change that was made because admins and editors were concerned about the perception that they were actually editing the original image directly from Photo Center rather than placing overrides on the values that are displayed.
I hope this helps!
Caytlyn