Suggestion/Idea: Reduce Main-Menu

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Today we have at the top the username. A tap on the user opens the menu User data.
My motivation is

  • to reduce things, so the user can concentrate on other stuff
  • Shorten the menu to have easier access to other items
  • Shorten the menu in general

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Menu opens:

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Additionally we have in the settings a block General, which is - from my point - obsolete and can be removed, if these settings are put into the “User data”.

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Settings - General - Language
I have tried with two users. User #1 set to DE and User #2 to EN.

When logging into the app with the two users, the language of the app was the language which was set here. For example setting EN - the language did not change.

Correct would be at this point the naming *App-language" instead of just “Language”.
In real life, it makes in 99,9% no difference, as only one user uses the installation.

Nevertheless my proposal: Please make also the language user-dependant.

  • Save the language in the user profile
  • When logging into the app, check the langugage of the user and change, if required
  • Remove this setting *Language" from the *Settings"-menu
  • Add Language to the user menu

Settings - General - Unit of length
I have tried with two users. User #1 set to km and User #2 to miles.

Already today - when logging into the app - the unit for the user is used.

Proposal:

  • Remove Unit of length from the *Settings"-menu
  • Add this Unit of length to the user menu

Settings - General - Profile settings

This option opens the same menu User data as if i tap on my user at the top. It is redundant.
Tapping on the user seems to me a common way to access user data. I guess, that even users with little knowledge and training will find this. Most of the users will have some experience with shops, banking- or insurance-sites, where the user data is accessible by some user-releated hint at the top.

Amazon:

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Ebay:

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Proposal:

  • Remove this (redundant) item

Finally the section "General* can be removed.

In doubt, the user will recognize the user-data at the top, an icon could be added (3-dots or a gear).

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Thanks for the proposal.

Language and Units is something users with no account need to set as well, so we can’t move it to the profile/account.

So we would need a way to set these things for users with no account, and then we end up with two settings screens.

Yes this is correct. I am not 100% happy with this either :thinking:.