Apart from the bugs and blunders described by myself and others in this thread, there’s a fundamental thing wrong with the new formations screen:
When users drag and drop objects (as we do, for example when we substitute players) a simple usability rule applies: It must be possible for the user to view the object’s source location (that’s our list of substitutes) and the destination location (that’s the playing field in our case) without any need for scrolling.
Now, on my devices (tablet and phone) that’s not possible: When I pick a substitute, I can’t view all of the playing field, and when I view the playing field, I can only view half of my substitutes. That’s annoying, but it’s also against established best practice for usability. As a user of the new formations screen, I do my dragging and dropping of players in partial blindness, because I can’t always view the object source and destination simultaneously.
Maybe the new formation screen was designed with pc monitors in mind, but this is 2017, and tablets and phones are in use everywhere, so Nordeus guys please fix the bugs, but also this more fundamental mistake that some designer has made.
Yo, sausy.
As requested, here are some screenshots:
In a live game, player names are visible on the formation screen when you’re in My Team mode, but when you’re thinking about substituting players, you typically switch your formation screen to Matchup mode (to view how your planned substitution will match the opponent’s players), and then you can’t view your own players’ names. Not so much a problem now, perhaps, because we’re a long way into the season, but what about early next season, will you be able to recognise every new player only by his number?
Missing player names on formation screen when in matchup mode:
OK player names on formation screen only when in my team mode:
... and notice how you can’t view your substitutes when you view the pitch, and vice versa. That’s bad when you’re supposed to drag and drop players when you make substitutions.
Last edited by Jernet; 11-09-2017 at 07:50 PM.
And now a final observation from me, hopefully ...:
On the new Lineup screen, the use of a bold font makes player names and other info hard to read.
Its also inconsistent with the Training screen that lists players in a similar way, but (fortunately) uses a non-bold font.
Another user also reported this readability problem in this thread yesterday. Please use a non-bold font on the Lineup screen.
Last edited by Jernet; 11-09-2017 at 05:30 PM.