Enhancements

Note

This page contains possible enhancements and a list of problems of the app. These are results of feedback from users, mostly a test with a school class of the Gymnasium Geretsried on the 12. June 2023. More ideas of future functions and enhancements can be found in the Ausblick chapter of the thesis.

Warning

Technical bugs are not documented here, they can be found and handled in the Github Issues

Problems

Problem	Description
Performance	The loading times of components go up fast in parallel use on a few devices.
Notification bubble	The red bubble showing the number of notifications is not updated when the notifications are read.
Node selections	In some cases it is not possible to select a node, e.g. after adding a line to it. See Github Issues for more information.
Axis labels	Some labels of plot axis are missing.

Enhancements and Ideas

Idea	Category	Description
Undo button	Functionality	An undo-button would be a great addition to the functionality.
Device integration	Household Devices	Not enough devices included. Especially devices used by the target group are interesting.
Device classification	Household Devices	Would be great to be able to differentiate better between older and newer devices (e.g. washing machine, efficiency classes).
Power profile scaling	Household Devices	Make profiles scalable (e.g. take a 100W PC power profile and scale it to a 200W PC).
Explanation of time slider	User expericence	The time slider for the grid is not introduced properly, it is not intuitive to use it.
Line mode activation	User experience	It is not comfortable to deactivate the line mode after each use.
Symbol external grid	User experience	The external grid symbol does not represent the function well and is not intuitive to understand.
Icon own device	User experience	Copying from iconify is not comfortable enough, maybe implement a pre-selection of icons?
Transformer	Knowledge	The user does not necessarily know what a transformer does exactly.
Layout scaling	Layout	The layout does not scale with the screen size. Half-Windows are not possible because icons dissapear.