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As of right now when selecting a time range on the timeline on comparison and diff page , it's not completely clear that a user has the ability to interact with the timeline.
I.e. these two arrows point to parts of the flamegraph that a user can interact with:
the image above is from #942 where we also changed the colors of the comparison timelines to distinguish between two separate queries.
I think a much nicer version of this can be seen in this UI with lightstep:
There are two components of the timeline above that we should adopt to improve on two elements of UX with these timelines:
To much use of a single color
Not clear that timeline is interactable
Fixing too much use of a single color
Lets use the "left" timeline for an example:
there are multiple elements that are pink:
The data bars themselves are pink
The "end bars" (red text) are pink -- which is kind of confusing compared to the pink bars which also denote actual data
The "shaded selected area" is a slightly opaque pink
The same is true for the blue timeline...
In order to fix this I think we should:
Leave the data bars themselves as pink
make the end bars "dashed" grey (lets make this configurable so we can play with different colors)
make the "shaded selected area" a slightly opaque grey
Maybe add a "pink" horizontal bar along the top edge of the selected area similar to the purple horizontal bar in this image:
Fixing making it clear that the timeilne is interact-able
This one is more straight forward. I think we simply need to:
Add the "handle" on the left and the right side of the range to make it clear that people can change this
Remove the text that says "select left time range" because now hopefully it will be clearer
Considerations
This will likely require us to make these changes via a custom flot plugin similar to what @shaleynikov did in fixing #99 / #730
The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered:
As of right now when selecting a time range on the timeline on comparison and diff page , it's not completely clear that a user has the ability to interact with the timeline.
I.e. these two arrows point to parts of the flamegraph that a user can interact with:
the image above is from #942 where we also changed the colors of the comparison timelines to distinguish between two separate queries.
I think a much nicer version of this can be seen in this UI with lightstep:
There are two components of the timeline above that we should adopt to improve on two elements of UX with these timelines:
Fixing too much use of a single color
Lets use the "left" timeline for an example:
there are multiple elements that are pink:
The same is true for the blue timeline...
In order to fix this I think we should:
Maybe add a "pink" horizontal bar along the top edge of the selected area similar to the purple horizontal bar in this image:
Fixing making it clear that the timeilne is interact-able
This one is more straight forward. I think we simply need to:
Considerations
This will likely require us to make these changes via a custom flot plugin similar to what @shaleynikov did in fixing #99 / #730
The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: