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[AUTHOR’S NOTE: I don’t usually post Ingress stuff to my regular blog, and when I posted this in the Ingress community page in G+, I had no idea it was going to actually be transferred in. But since it’s a public community, I guess Google+Blog brought it over. \u00a0Anyway, it seems to have struck a chord with the Ingress public, and, as of about 3:40pm, sits with +132 rating. A picture is worth a thousand words, I guess.]<\/em><\/p>\n

Having worked all the way up to L8, my dissatisfaction with the basic UI continues unabated.The multiple spinner interface on the upgrade\/deployment screen in particular is clumsy and time-confusing to use\u00a0— poorly labeled resonator points, time lag to select the one you want and drag it or have it spin around to you, tiny and difficult-to-read-in-daylight resonators to select from, time lag (and high degree of potential inaccuracy) in selecting them. And if you are trying to manage your phone one-handed, it’s even worse.For something slightly less spinny-whiz-bang, it would be trivial to have an easy screen that would let you deploy resonators\u00a0with two easy taps. See the very rough mockup below of the Upgrade Resonator screen; insert pictures and colors and funky shapes as need be. \u00a0Tap on the compass point, tap on the resonator size, bang.<\/p>\n

Spinners are cool to see, but a pain to play with, both here, in portal mod deployment, and in (ugh) key inventory. (Btw, having an indicator of number of keys on the portal, as well as a way in the scanner of seeing what portals you have keys for would both help manage this key resource better.) \u00a0A more straightforward interface would make for a more pleasant \u00a0game to play.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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[AUTHOR’S NOTE: I don’t usually post Ingress stuff to my regular blog, and when I posted this in the Ingress community page in G+, I had no idea it was going to actually be transferred in. 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