Layers UI feedback for Prospect 1.0 - HTC Vive

First of all, congratulations on the updates to the tools and tool design in 1.0, which is cleaner and much simpler to use.

I feel the new layers UI has some ironing out to do.  You've chosen to stick with the point & click, which keeps it nice & simple for users, and which may make work well across controllers, but obviously for the Vive, scrolling is much easier with the touchpad. The wide content area was a good choice for layer descriptions.

I think scrolling in the Layers UI has 3 issues currently:

1. It’s made for people who are right-handed, with the scrollbar on the right-hand side
2. The scrollbar is too small, resulting in lack of control over the scrolling, as hands move to the side
3. When there are many layers, scrolling is too fast to read the layer descriptions

My suggestions for working around this:

1. Make the scrollbar wider & bigger, so that I don't have to concentrate
2. Add arrows at top and bottom of scrollbar in addition or instead
3. Use full width arrows instead and place at top and bottom with content in the middle (no scroll bar)
4. Make it possible to click and drag the content area up & down, with touch-like scrolling (natural deceleration)

My only other niggle is that with the HTC Vive, you have to do a full-depth trigger pull - personally I think a half-depth pull would be better, as most people won't know the difference.

Good luck with the next iteration!

Cheers,

Geoff@BetterWorld.Digital