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    Rongway's Avatar
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    Cyrillo Rongway
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    Hyperion
    Main Class
    Black Mage Lv 100
    It is better UI/UX practice to mark FAILED positionals differently, not successful positionals. If you mark successful positionals, there is still no way to tell just by looking at the numbers if a normal colored attack is a missed positional or a non positional. If you mark failed positionals instead, then it's really easy to see which attacks are failed positionals.

    Take a look at these two schemes:

    Marking successful positionals:
    Twin Snakes 429
    Demolish 421(+)
    Bootshine 660
    True Strike 499
    Snap Punch 439
    Dragon Kick 309
    Twin Snakes 418
    Snap Punch 459(+)
    Bootshine 628
    True Strike 503
    Demolish 435(+)
    Dragon Kick 318
    Twin Snakes 400
    Snap Punch 420
    Bootshine 655
    True Strike 518
    Snap Punch 504(+)


    Marking failed positionals:
    Dragon Kick 325
    Twin Snakes 429
    Demolish 421
    Bootshine 660
    True Strike 499
    Snap Punch 439(-)
    Dragon Kick 309
    Twin Snakes 418
    Snap Punch 459
    Bootshine 628
    True Strike 503
    Demolish 435
    Dragon Kick 318
    Twin Snakes 400
    Snap Punch 420(-)
    Bootshine 655
    True Strike 518
    Snap Punch 504


    How many failed positionals were there? Without knowing the attack names or monk rotation, would you be able to tell which actions were failed positionals? The second example, with the failed positionals marked, is clearly much easier to interpret.

    It is also bad UI/UX to indicate things only by a change in color. There needs to be something different about the text. For example, add (-) to the end of a failed positional.
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    Last edited by Rongway; 11-04-2024 at 01:06 PM.