2015-02-04, 20:46
I have a usability suggestion for navigating within the guide screen.
Currently when you scroll up or down the guide moves based on the start time of the selected show. This can cause odd scrolling if you are looking into the future for what would be on later.
For example: You scroll out a couple hours to 7pm to see what's on tonight. Now you want to go through the channels to see all your choices. If the next channel you select has a show starting at 7 all is good. If that show started at 6 though is where it gets less friendly. Now when you scroll down again it will go to the next channel selecting the show starting at 6. If you hit a couple channels with things not all lining up it is easy to end up scrolled well away from the desired 7pm.
My suggestion is to lock horizontal scrolling when doing vertical scrolling. So the guide would remain focused at 7pm until you manually scrolled horizontally.
Currently when you scroll up or down the guide moves based on the start time of the selected show. This can cause odd scrolling if you are looking into the future for what would be on later.
For example: You scroll out a couple hours to 7pm to see what's on tonight. Now you want to go through the channels to see all your choices. If the next channel you select has a show starting at 7 all is good. If that show started at 6 though is where it gets less friendly. Now when you scroll down again it will go to the next channel selecting the show starting at 6. If you hit a couple channels with things not all lining up it is easy to end up scrolled well away from the desired 7pm.
My suggestion is to lock horizontal scrolling when doing vertical scrolling. So the guide would remain focused at 7pm until you manually scrolled horizontally.
