Nice slick looking interface so well done. Agree with the 3 previous feedback posts, especially Sulaco and JustNash's.
Hover notes are good practice in general especially for the more 'technical' or ambiguous terms.
I would also like to add my own few points:
Generally speaking, with some understanding of the tradeoffs needed to be made between load times/server loads etc vs quantity of data retrieved/displayed, in the balance I would say that a slightly longer initial load time for a snapshot or management overview with more information is worth the wait. The fewer tabs and links I have to drill down to, in order to have a clear understanding of whats going on, the better. Ideally I shouldn't need to go beyond this page to determine if I need to do anything else.
I would also add that some way of incorporating business-relevant summary stats on production/supplies/sales into this initial view would be a godsend i.e. key kpis or metrics ought to include revenues, prod values etc
i.e. all information I would need to determine if any further action needs to be taken on this unit without having to explore other tabs. If yes then I can drill down.
A few additional points, and though not exactly relevant to this thread (sorry), it would be great if sales/trade-hall and supply could be merged into one tab. This would be very helpful.
Consistency in the supply view (and in general), across all the business types, would also be useful (working out average price value based on all suppliers contracted would be great - you already have this feature in the warehouse unit tab so shouldn't be a problem to implement that across the other unit types).
Lastly, the landing global summary page could be improved, one simple idea, would be an inframe display on the main home landing page of the discussed management interface (beta version) when clicking on any unit i.e. I select one of my companies from the list and the report summary above changes to show me the summary snapshot of that unit (with the new interface we are discussing). Hope this makes sense.
And can the default sort on the companies either be by poorest/best performers or most inefficient :-)
Virto is a great experience. Keep it going, keep it growing!! |