New SkySight color scheme

On Wednesday, October 24, 2018 at 8:08:39 PM UTC+1, Paul Agnew wrote:
I hope one of the options is to revert to the original color scheme. There is a learning curve when you start using a new piece of software and having the color scheme in mind made it easier to quickly discern the conditions for the day. Now, I'm having to go back and forth to the color bar on the right to relearn how to read the charts.

PA

You can get the original version at old.skysight.io

On Wednesday, 24 October 2018 22:32:31 UTC+2, wrote:
On Wednesday, October 24, 2018 at 8:08:39 PM UTC+1, Paul Agnew wrote:
I hope one of the options is to revert to the original color scheme. There is a learning curve when you start using a new piece of software and having the color scheme in mind made it easier to quickly discern the conditions for the day. Now, I'm having to go back and forth to the color bar on the right to relearn how to read the charts.

PA

You can get the original version at old.skysight.io

I do apologise for inconvenience caused, we tried not to surprise anyone by having a long beta period and now drip feeding the improvements rather than doing them all at once.

The new colour scheme is very similar to the previous version, just with a slightly expanded range of colours - one of the most common criticisms of the previous version was trouble identifying the difference between one colour and the next, so by stretching the colour palette slightly we're able to increase the difference between steps.

As mentioned above, we are working on adding some degree of user control to the scales, mostly for the intent of serving our colourblind users with a couple more choices, but if demand is there it will be extended further to support other weird and wonderful scales of your choosing.

https://old.skysight.io/ has the previous version of SkySight and it will remain available until we're sure everyone has been able to get onto the new site and their needs are being met. We are not seeing much traffic to the old site, so I am hoping most people are happy with the ongoing developments.

Regards,
Matthew

On Wednesday, October 24, 2018 at 10:01:36 PM UTC+1, wrote:
On Wednesday, 24 October 2018 22:32:31 UTC+2, wrote:
On Wednesday, October 24, 2018 at 8:08:39 PM UTC+1, Paul Agnew wrote:
I hope one of the options is to revert to the original color scheme. There is a learning curve when you start using a new piece of software and having the color scheme in mind made it easier to quickly discern the conditions for the day. Now, I'm having to go back and forth to the color bar on the right to relearn how to read the charts.

PA

You can get the original version at old.skysight.io

I do apologise for inconvenience caused, we tried not to surprise anyone by having a long beta period and now drip feeding the improvements rather than doing them all at once.

The new colour scheme is very similar to the previous version, just with a slightly expanded range of colours - one of the most common criticisms of the previous version was trouble identifying the difference between one colour and the next, so by stretching the colour palette slightly we're able to increase the difference between steps.

As mentioned above, we are working on adding some degree of user control to the scales, mostly for the intent of serving our colourblind users with a couple more choices, but if demand is there it will be extended further to support other weird and wonderful scales of your choosing.

https://old.skysight.io/ has the previous version of SkySight and it will remain available until we're sure everyone has been able to get onto the new site and their needs are being met. We are not seeing much traffic to the old site, so I am hoping most people are happy with the ongoing developments.

Regards,
Matthew

I may be dim but I can't find a fader for the colours on the new version.

On Wednesday, 24 October 2018 23:54:23 UTC+2, wrote:
On Wednesday, October 24, 2018 at 10:01:36 PM UTC+1, wrote:
On Wednesday, 24 October 2018 22:32:31 UTC+2, wrote:
On Wednesday, October 24, 2018 at 8:08:39 PM UTC+1, Paul Agnew wrote:
I hope one of the options is to revert to the original color scheme.. There is a learning curve when you start using a new piece of software and having the color scheme in mind made it easier to quickly discern the conditions for the day. Now, I'm having to go back and forth to the color bar on the right to relearn how to read the charts.

PA

You can get the original version at old.skysight.io

I do apologise for inconvenience caused, we tried not to surprise anyone by having a long beta period and now drip feeding the improvements rather than doing them all at once.

The new colour scheme is very similar to the previous version, just with a slightly expanded range of colours - one of the most common criticisms of the previous version was trouble identifying the difference between one colour and the next, so by stretching the colour palette slightly we're able to increase the difference between steps.

As mentioned above, we are working on adding some degree of user control to the scales, mostly for the intent of serving our colourblind users with a couple more choices, but if demand is there it will be extended further to support other weird and wonderful scales of your choosing.

https://old.skysight.io/ has the previous version of SkySight and it will remain available until we're sure everyone has been able to get onto the new site and their needs are being met. We are not seeing much traffic to the old site, so I am hoping most people are happy with the ongoing developments.

Regards,
Matthew

I may be dim but I can't find a fader for the colours on the new version.

The purpose of the opacity slider on the old version was so that you could slide it down to read the map labels underneath - on the new site the labels are rendered on top of the map, so I didn't see a usecase for a slider any more. It's easy to add back, but what are you using it for?

I use the slider a lot to compare the overlying predicted conditions to the underlying terrain.

On Thursday, October 25, 2018 at 2:10:20 AM UTC-4, wrote:
I use the slider a lot to compare the overlying predicted conditions to the underlying terrain.

Me too.

Matt, mine changed this morning, and while not familiar, the color separation is very helpful. I think it is an improvement, one that will take some getting used to, but an improvement. And I agree that putting the labeling on top will also cause less need to change the opacity, but access to the alpha slider could still be helpful. Thanks for the changes.

Rick