UI concept question: Can the detail page of a master/detail pattern become the new master page?

Hi folks, I've a Xamarin.Forms master/detail page pattern applied to my Surface Duo app. Current scenario On the left side are mutliple selectable list items, on the right, the detail of the se...

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Hakon_Strande
Feb 12, 2020
My vote (not a UX designer :-)) would be to move detail over and use the entire right screen for note taking. Then move the content back when done taking notes. This is the kind of thing that some companies spend weeks and tons of money researching with real people coming into a UR lab and going through exercises with these various ideas and the scoring them. These user's interactions are video taped and analyzed to death to find out if there is a "best" way for most users. 🙂 The rest of us without such resources just have to use common sense. 🙂

Hakon_Strande

Former Employee

Feb 12, 2020

My vote (not a UX designer :-)) would be to move detail over and use the entire right screen for note taking. Then move the content back when done taking notes. This is the kind of thing that some companies spend weeks and tons of money researching with real people coming into a UR lab and going through exercises with these various ideas and the scoring them. These user's interactions are video taped and analyzed to death to find out if there is a "best" way for most users. 🙂 The rest of us without such resources just have to use common sense. 🙂

tscholze

Iron Contributor

Feb 12, 2020

Hakon_Strande this is a sarcastic but very true answer. xD

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UI concept question: Can the detail page of a master/detail pattern become the new master page?

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