Scoutbook Plus User Interface Issues

There is a User Interface design issue in Scoutbook Plus that is arguably pretty poor and should be changed. The left-right division of the screen rolls into a poor user experience when updating advancement.

Since most screens are landscape vertical resources are at a premium. By dividing the screen into left-right halves the advancement requirements on the right are only half the screen wide so now each individual advancement element requires an enormous amount of vertical space on the screen. Consequently, exactly two advancement elements are visible at a time. Scrolling through the elements to find specific ones of interest is tedious when you only see two at a time.

Compare the new user experience with Scoutbook The Original Series (STOS) and you see that many more advancement elements are visible on the screen at once because each individual element takes up a minimum of vertical space. Scrolling is smooth and easily scanned for the information needed because the full width of the display is dedicated to this one task. The visual appearance of Scoutbook Plus is not just different, it is arguably flawed at its foundation because of the reliance on a left-right screen split.

@KennethLillemo- feedback should be routed via your council professionals not via the forums. There is nobody from National nor the dev team on the forums. Beyond that the same left/right navigation is also used in my.scouting.org

@KennethLillemo

Thank you for this feedback. I’ll pass this on to the developers.

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