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Add y-axis label markers to help people understand the visualisation

Open mhansen opened this issue 3 years ago • 2 comments

I'm trying to popularise these visualisations for mobile development, but common feedback I get is that people aren't sure what they're looking at.

I think adding axis labels would help.

Just something like +100ms, +200ms, along the left side of the vis, would help I think to make it clear that the cells represent subsecond slices.

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What do you think? We could possibly work on this. Wondering if you think this would be a reasonable addition.

mhansen avatar Mar 03 '22 23:03 mhansen

Here's a very rough mock-up (in macOS Preview) of what i'm thinking. Maybe with more markers.

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mhansen avatar Mar 03 '22 23:03 mhansen

As extra benefit, it'd remind me which way time goes. I can't remember if time goes up or down in these graphs. I might have got the above the wrong way around!

mhansen avatar Mar 03 '22 23:03 mhansen