User Experience Improvement Suggestions (Raffaele)
lagerspetz opened this issue · 10 comments
User experience and emprovement (I hope)
I want to share my experience of use of Carat. As appropriate, you can deepen for possible development, otherwise okay.
What do I expected from Carat first time?
I say with an example. HOG for excellence is Facebook. A lot of people know that uses a lot of power with default settings, it uses less power through proper settings, better to use browser-app that still consume less.
So default-Facebook is a BUG / HOG, it remains HOG with the proper settings and action to do is replace it with a browser-app.
What do I found?
BUGS. Ok, my user experience is happy. It fits with my idea of BUG. Sometime impact seems exaggerated to me (flixbzs over 8 hours)
ACTION. Now I understand and is very convenient. But there is a malfunction: on my device does not kill (verified). An hide filter is a good gadget.
HOGS. Here I am not.
The distance is because Carat measure middle ground between high use and waste. Plus, it measures only a sample and not all apps users have on the device. So it ends up being distracted by fanaticism of gaming apps users. And it is a bad surprise to have a Hog on the device that Carat does not consider (e.g. because user uses rarely). So, often, Carat is different from other sources that give me information about battery drain: AVG and Android
For these reasons Worlwide ranking is far from that of AVG: it is full of niche apps used by people who are particularly fond of.
My Huawei named hogs an App with battery drain up 20mAh on 6 hours. It say me that Whatsapp, Bluemail, Maps, Prezzi Benzina, Youdrive, are Hogs. Youdrive is so hogs that it cannot work on Huawei devices (Developer ask me an help about this problem and solution is "Youdrive is scandalous for his use of the battery")
Carat silent (better if say e.g. "I don't know well this app")
What more could be done.
Colors-scale (Busg and Hogs) It is more interesting a view sorted by day Carat viewed (because apps well-behavior remain) and therefore ranking for battery-drain can be done with colors. (red yellow green icon near orange taste according to the impact).
PROCESS. Very useful, I'd give best evidence. Ability to customize view (through possibility to select show/hide processes - vip).
BUGS. Allowing a community with an exchange of helps such as Amazon.
HOGS.
I think that Carat must say something about all apps installed on device.
A first list of installed apps can be manually by users.
Carat does sample, the sample goes to the server, the server processes and returns to user after a lot of days. The user does not know and thinks Carat is strange.
So Carat may have three sections on this page. Active (those that I find in Action), detected by Carat, detected by list of installed apps (manual?).
In Android6 there's consumption for every App, it could use it.
A "K" that allows to discriminate (even by feel) well-behaviour from bad-behaviours seldom used. If (battery impact) / (time I think I usually use app) > "K" then bad else inetensive.
WORLDWIDE. Better access allowing users to filter by number of users, region and some other. Alternatively to filters at least three lists according to the number of users. Increase number of App cataloged. Better extension until it lists AVG hogs.
AVG font:
avg-android-app-performance-report-q4-2014.pdf
VIPS APP = processes with a filter that hides those which do not wish to view
More about BUGS: a real case.
Matteo wrote on a community lamenting a high battery drain.
Matteo said he had tried them all.
I told him to use Carat.
He found a BUG and some HOGs.
Using Carat for a long time I noticed that usually BUGs are the problem: I'm shure BUGs have bad battery drain; HOGs can be well behaviours very used.
Matteo's BUG was Chrome: a browser.
I use Atlas Browser and it is not a BUG, not an HOG.
So I suggested to Matteo swaping Chrome with Atlas Browser.
Matteo solved battery drain.
Only regret: although my feeling about Atlas Browser is strong (and i'm not alone, others said this same in reviews), it is only a feeling; Carat instead has the exact numbers for Chrome and Atlas Browser (and all browsers).
I like Carat because it allows to "design" consumption, while other apps allow it only to monitor it.
Thanks, this is a very nice story 👍
Inside Carat data, there is energy consumption of all kinds of apps, also browsers, but since the Internet category has a lot of apps, we cannot automatically know something is a browser. So, suggesting alternative applications is difficult. We are working on that too though.
But, as you have number, you can do TOP browser, as Top hogs. Because Top Hogs as it is now it is not a beautifull ranking.
Sample: NoRootFirewall (App).
I found it in Top Hogs and in Bugs.
In Bugs I found: 2 users (I and my wife, I suppose).
So, if you will do Worldwide by users (not ranking, top users) probably better and probably browsers are in first 200.
If I can select a number of app as screen can (6 as it is now), I can compare (viewing one screen) and it is the best.
So what you're suggesting is a heuristic to try and optimize both the energy consumption and the actual app popularity when generating the list of top 200 hogs? I do agree that some of the top hogs are quite rarely seen in the wild and thus not relevant to many users.
No. Simpler.
I say:
I like if Carat allows me to choose best energy app.
So, well behaviours are important as hogs.
As Carat cannot view all Apps, it will view only top users.
As Carat cannot know "category" (sample browser), it will allow me to do manually (by manual flags).
So I can flag 6 apps in one screen and I will compare their consumption.
If you will modify and I can flag more then 6, it is good.
If you can view more apps (>200), it is good.
If user can suggest to append manually some apps (so I have from 1 to 200 and 223, and 355 sample Atlas Browser), it is good.
I try :-)
If intelligent-servers can learn similar from manual selection (as Amazon) is top, better then Google.
If you will do you will must move from "Hogs" to "Action" or "Worldwide".
Some number to explaine.
Some numbers to be clearer.
The top used hog is 173) JuiceDefender - battery saver. 21071 users have it (I suppose "reports"="have").
Out of 684273 users 21071 reports JuiceDefender. They are 3%.
More than 90% of Top Hogs are reported by less than 0.3% of users.
However, 3% of users will find JuiceDefender in their Carat.
So information on top-bad-behaviors is duplicated.
An information on well-behaviors, therefore, will be good.
Probably we will need to filtered by system apps, but definitely on this topic we can do a lot.
You may even think of presenting both the charts. All information is interesting.
Remember, knowledge is power! :-)
Perhaps also ranking by (battery x users) my be a solution. I cannot try to valuate.
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