Lisk Hub 0.9.0 — Updated Main Menu, Transaction Detail Page Tweaks and More
We are happy to announce the release of Lisk Hub 0.9.0, our desktop application for Windows, MacOS, and Linux. This version brings the following improvements:
- View of votes from non-delegate accounts
- Updated main menu
- Transaction detail page tweaks
- Other UI and UX tweaks
Viewing votes from non-delegate accounts
Lisk Hub 0.9.0 adds a new feature to the account page. Previously, the account page had allowed users to view votes and voters only from delegate accounts. We have added an “Account Info” tab which lists all the delegates that the account voted for — you can easily view the votes from any account regardless of whether or not the account is a delegate account.
Updated main menu
We have updated the main menu icons to take less space, so that the menu fits into most screens with various sizes. We also removed the “More” option, which previously yielded a sidebar with all of the items. In the case of a laptop with really small resolution, the menu will be scrollable for now. We plan to look into how to better optimize the UI on smaller resolution laptops.
Transaction detail page tweaks
This release also contains several UX improvements as we’re always striving to improve the user experience of using Lisk Hub.
A small tweak was made to the way a transaction amount is displayed on the transaction detail page. Previously, a transaction would be displayed with a + or a — based on which account the user came from. But because it could be confusing to some users as to why the amount of the same transaction was sometimes displayed with a + and sometimes with a -, we changed the transaction detail page to display only the number.
We also updated the transaction detail in the Wallet section to behave as a separate page. At first sight, it may look the same, but it has more intuitive behavior in some cases. For example, when previewing a transaction’s details in the Wallet and clicking the Wallet menu item, it goes back to the default view of the Wallet listing all transactions, whereas in the past, it stayed in the transaction detail because it was still considered the same page.
Other UI and UX tweaks
Since Version 0.6.0, we’ve had the FIAT currency converted in the send module to allow users to see the value of LSK they are sending in EUR or USD. We’ve now added the EUR/USD switcher to the settings so that once the user selects one of them, it will always stick to the preferred FIAT currency.
We also added icons to the vote launch protocol landing page to make it even quicker and easier to spot the delegates to be voted or unvoted.
We are aware that there are other UX issues that require a bigger overhaul of some parts of the application. More UX improvements are coming, including a solution to a frequently asked question of how to log out.
Download the desktop app and follow Lisk Hub on GitHub to keep an eye on development in real-time.
About the Author:
Vít Stanislav is a frontend developer for Lisk at Lightcurve and the project lead of Lisk Hub. Previously, he was developing web-based tools for Red Hat. He has plenty of additional frontend experience from developing online learning systems as a member of Adaptive Learning research group at Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic. He is committed to making Lisk the blockchain technology with the best user experience.
