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Improve user experience of MainActivity

See original GitHub issue

Enhancement: Improve user experience

I am aware that we are awaiting input from UI/UX experts in the forums at the moment, but as there hasn’t been any real progress over the last few weeks, I thought I would ask if we shouldn’t at least improve what we’ve got so far.

To me, the most “frightening” part of the UI at the moment is what I like to think of as the “button graveyard”, which is our MainActivity, aka “Advanced operations”. At the moment, we have 11 buttons stacked up vertically, with button topics mixed up wildly, which I think everyone will agree, is not the best user experience one can think of.

One currently still open PR will already consolidate the import options into its own activity which helps a little. But there is much more room for improvement here I think.

Here are some suggestions for quickly implementable fixes, which, while not providing a complete solution to the overall UX problem, would at least mitigate it a little:

Remove the button Use Identity. Am I right in assuming that this a remnant from the time before SimplifiedActivity? To me, it is not even immediately clear what “use identity” even means, and I think we should keep the operational aspects of the app separated from the “identity management” aspect. I think the main action in SimplifiedActivity should be the only way of invoking a qr scan.
Move Settings into the main overflow menu We could even think about showing it as an icon in the action bar. But I think it makes sense moving it one level “higher”, away from the other purely “identity management” related options.
Move Change Password, Reset Password and Rekey into its own sub activity. This could then be called PasswordOptions or something similar.
Consolidate import options Already implemented in pending PR “File import feature and import UI consolidation”
Rename MainActivity

This would leave us with “only” the following options in MainActivity:

Create New Identity
Remove Identity
Rename Identity
Export Identity
Import Identity
Password/Rekey Options

I also think it would then be appropriate to rename MainActivity to IdentityManagementActivity and call the correspoding overflow menu item Identity Management instead of Advanced operations.

@kalaspuffar , I would totally understand if you’d rather wait for the UI/UX experts to finally present something, but this is bugging me already for quite some time and I wanted to at least get a discussion going.

Looking foward to your feedback, guys!

Best regards, Alex