The interface improves with use

Two messages keep recurring in tester feedback. The charts have received praise, and in recent days all question types have received the same clear graph as scale questions. The other message is more critical: the facilitator view feels like an airplane cockpit, full of gauges and buttons that one doesn't dare touch.

We take this seriously. The comparison is apt, and it also contains the beginning of a solution.

DARK COCKPIT

A modern passenger aircraft is designed according to the so-called dark cockpit principle: when everything is fine, no lights are on. Only what deviates from normal or requires action becomes visible. In Pronoia, the situation is currently the opposite, as everything is visible all the time and nothing stands out.

Only what has something to say is visible. When the panel proceeds normally, the situation condenses into a single line. The card only opens when something is pending or requires the facilitator.

Always one clear next step. The top of the screen tells you what to do now. Everything else is below it.

Pruning based on usage. We will therefore only make changes once actual usage is clear. All clicks are recorded, and based on that, rarely needed functions move to an additional menu. Nothing disappears, but they no longer take up space.

BUTTONS

Buttons are not left unused because there are many of them, but because one doesn't know what will happen and whether it can be undone. Therefore, going forward:

Each function tells its consequences before pressing, for example "This will send an invitation to 14 panelists".
What can be undone, will be undone.
Practice study: with one button, a ready sandbox is created with AI panelists and responses. You can try everything there without risk.

The first step in this direction is already in use. When writing a question, you can now open a preview that shows what the question and its summary graph look like to the panelist, even before anything has been saved.

FEWER CHOICES INITIALLY

The third approach is reducing decisions. We are developing the wizard in a direction where you describe your study's objective in your own words and receive a justified structural proposal. We are also building up the template library, which contains complete study models: rounds, schedule template, invitation letters, and example theses ready-made. The methodological decisions have then already been made well in advance, and the facilitator is left with the content.

IN WHAT ORDER

We start with clarifying the cockpit and the safety of functions, because they improve the user experience most quickly. Templates and a more advanced wizard will be built on top of them.

We would be happy to hear which view or function has felt most burdensome to you. That's exactly where to start.