Steemitpond allows viewers to take a quick overview of what is going on on the steem blockchain. This is a very great opportunity the developer of steemitpond has provided the steemit planet. The innovation behind this project is unparalleled as the developer thought about the common numenclature on the steemit planet and used it to carve out a virtual world of a sea with the current activies represented perfectly by the elements of the sea namely: whales, minnows, redfish e.t.c.
The developer also did a very wonderful job of looking for a symbol that perfectly depicts what a downvote is.
The challenge
When you look at the present steemitpond.com, you will note that the datas represented are in a way jampacked and uneasy to quickly select or isolate a particular action from the others.
It makes it totally uneasy to select an action to view or to follow a link as the data presented are clumsy. It looks more like a raw data which may not be too good for analysis.
My suggestion
I suggest that the layout be changed from the sea background to a three dimension acquarium style. This will enable users to pan left-right then up-down to give them a better look at the datas represented. This will look more like the gif above as users will be able to view the image from different directions just by swiping up , down and sideways. The different views will be designed as such to suit the angle of sight. For example when a user swipes down, the images changes gradually to a plan veiw to enable them to view as though looking from th top of the water, and swiping up will make it look as though one is viewing from the bottom of the sea. Swiping left or right will take the view as though you are looking from right to left as expressed in the gif above.
If the three dimension acquarium style may be too hard to achieve now, i suggest that there be data spaced out on the screen instead of a clumsy one - it will be better this way. This may be some sort of grouping or categorization of data more effectively than it is now.
Benefits
The introduction of a three dimension acquarium will make the site look more interesting and make the datas easier to view.
The three dimension acquarium style will rule out jampacked data display as there will be ease of access and ease of isolation of a particular set of datas.
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