FWIW, I do not like the new "My Portfolio" page layout. Also, the "View Headlines" button stopped working properly. It does not scroll all the way down to the headlines, but stops about halfway down the listing of the tickets.
To add some specificity to this, the previous layout, which predominately was side-by-side, made it much easier to actually use the website. The left-hand pane could be scrolled and adjusted to control the contents of the right hand pane WITHOUT a lot of extraneous scrolling - in fact, switching portfolios required almost no scrolling.
With the new layout - basically single column vertical - you are constantly scrolling up and down (lots of scrolling up and down) when you want to switch portfolios. Furthermore, because it's "single column vertical", as soon as I scroll down to look at more articles in my feed, the view of my current stock prices (and other info) is lost. I must scroll back up to see price data. Lots and lots of scrolling up and down.
There is only one reason I can think of as to why you did this: you got tired of supporting different layouts for different devices, so you "dumbed-down" the computer browser layout to match the layout on mobile devices.
Poor decision: you sacrificed significant functionality for a little more work.
To add some specificity to this, the previous layout, which predominately was side-by-side, made it much easier to actually use the website. The left-hand pane could be scrolled and adjusted to control the contents of the right hand pane WITHOUT a lot of extraneous scrolling - in fact, switching portfolios required almost no scrolling.
With the new layout - basically single column vertical - you are constantly scrolling up and down (lots of scrolling up and down) when you want to switch portfolios. Furthermore, because it's "single column vertical", as soon as I scroll down to look at more articles in my feed, the view of my current stock prices (and other info) is lost. I must scroll back up to see price data. Lots and lots of scrolling up and down.
There is only one reason I can think of as to why you did this: you got tired of supporting different layouts for different devices, so you "dumbed-down" the computer browser layout to match the layout on mobile devices.
Poor decision: you sacrificed significant functionality for a little more work.
Hi Oil Can, We implemented this layout because we are trying to bring forward our financial data and ratings which we have made a substantial investment in. I am sorry it is less familiar and less comfortable for our users who are used to a different interface.. I was going to suggest that you can still view portfolio side by side using separate windows but the responsiveness is not working correctly now, so I asked the team to fix this asap. If there is anything else we can do to make the current experience more comfortable for your use, we are very open to feedback.
Multiple windows on "screen real estate limited" devices - i.e., laptops - will never work. And I suspect almost all of your users that are using their computers as their primary device are on laptops.
Try a simple exercise: fire up your browser on your computer, navigate to SA, go to your portfolio view. Then decrease the width of the window that is displaying your portfolio 50% or more - so that you could possibly display TWO windows side-by-side (as you suggest). Watch what happens... the portfolio disappears because the layout constraints are wrong (yeah I used to do this for a living).
Somehow this crop of young app developers never got the memo that you NEVER take away features from your customers.
To add some specificity to this, the previous layout, which predominately was side-by-side, made it much easier to actually use the website. The left-hand pane could be scrolled and adjusted to control the contents of the right hand pane WITHOUT a lot of extraneous scrolling - in fact, switching portfolios required almost no scrolling.
With the new layout - basically single column vertical - you are constantly scrolling up and down (lots of scrolling up and down) when you want to switch portfolios. Furthermore, because it's "single column vertical", as soon as I scroll down to look at more articles in my feed, the view of my current stock prices (and other info) is lost. I must scroll back up to see price data. Lots and lots of scrolling up and down.
There is only one reason I can think of as to why you did this: you got tired of supporting different layouts for different devices, so you "dumbed-down" the computer browser layout to match the layout on mobile devices.
Poor decision: you sacrificed significant functionality for a little more work.
Hi Oil Can, We implemented this layout because we are trying to bring forward our financial data and ratings which we have made a substantial investment in. I am sorry it is less familiar and less comfortable for our users who are used to a different interface.. I was going to suggest that you can still view portfolio side by side using separate windows but the responsiveness is not working correctly now, so I asked the team to fix this asap. If there is anything else we can do to make the current experience more comfortable for your use, we are very open to feedback.