alienworks/state-of-neo-client

Quick UX review

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Hi,
I saw your post on reddit asking for some help with UX and wanted to share a few thoughts I had on the project.
Firstly, awesome work so far! It's looking great. Lots of interesting data and useful information. I'm super keen to see the project grow.

Here are a few things I thought about when going over the content. These are just my personal opinions on how it might be improved in future versions.

Dashboard
I think the data shown here could be more an overview of the ecosystem. A way to see everything at a glance and then can click into sections to see more information about them.
For example, some of the data shown could be removed as it's not especially needed on the home page, like the validators on the blocks or the hash on the transactions etc.

And by simplifying you can potential add other stuff like being able to see how many contracts there are, number of active address or the break down of the assets and so on. Easier to digest information that leads the user into the more technical stuff on the secondary pages.
I would be cool to make the block height and time etc, bigger on the home page, and then smaller on the secondary pages. Make it more visible and easy to see at first.

I was also thinking that the world map is a bit hard to use in the 3d globe version. Hard to see connections to other nodes etc. Might be better to lay it flat and potentially add more detail to the icons, for example, you could color code the icons depending on their status and when you hover it could show the more information like you have to the right of the screen there. This could even potentially remove the need for all the nodes shown up front like this, and have the full list on the secondary node page.

Some other smaller things are:
swap the check boxes on the graphs for radio buttons and add some sort of title to the drop down. it's a bit hard to notice it just being a small number.

I am also a bit unclear on what the Play and Pause button does on the contract details? Could benefit from a (i) or something.

Consider adding numbers and % to the titles on the pie charts instead of showing when hovering. Easier to see all the info (especially on items that are very small %) and will also improve mobile experience if you are planning on supporting it.

Hope this helps a bit! Please take these notes as personal opinion and nothing more. The project is really cool, thanks for the hard work & contributing to the ecosystem!