Improve UX and UI design for Jarbas

[ferk6a]

What is the problem?
The website has some rough edges in regards to usability and layout. I outlined some here:

How can this be addressed?
I propose a first "bugfixing" approach to fix padding, whitespace and inconsistencies to almost all of the "in your face" problems. However, some others will have to be rethought:

• Adding a simpler searching mechanism, search by text
• Move the current search to an advanced search page
• Have a page for individual results and collective search results to remove the unneeded whitespace cluttering individual pages
• Adding helpful explanations to uncommon financial terms

Who could help with this issue?
I am willing to do it. Someone which is more experienced with the searching capabilities (such as full text search, etc) could help with the available possibilities for a simpler searching UI, autocompleting identifiers and other kinds of labeling.

Labels
[enhancement] [documentation]

[cuducos]

Awesome, @fer22f! Thanks for that. Loved it ❤️

There are also great ideas in this archived issue: okfn-brasil/jarbas#61 Who ever is willing to take this improvements on, I do recommend following this old thread ; )

[cuducos]

Someone which is more experienced with the searching capabilities (such as full text search, etc) could help with the available possibilities for a simpler searching UI, autocompleting identifiers and other kinds of labeling.

Let me know how to help you. I can provide the back-end for features not covered by the current API.

[ferk6a]

Ooh, amazing, I don't know how I missed that thread! I will start to brush up some ideas based on them then, and keep this issue updated with the incremental improvements.

(And will use this issue to track my own progress)

[ferk6a]

What do you think about filter tabs?

In the coming week or so, I will request to merge this first set of fixes (without adding the more complicated stuff like adding new views), it basically works the same way as before, it's just a better UI.

[cuducos]

I like it! Incremental enhancements instead of throwing it all away and starting over sometimes is the way to go : )