Since you asked, here’s my 2¢:
- I don’t have a strong preference about placement for a control like a floodlight (or spotlight, like for Cam OG or Cam v4), but any action control buttons that overlay the live view pane definitely need backing contrast. Having white controls overlay an area of a camera’s view that’s also white or very light (and the designer is never going to know where or at what a camera is pointed) makes those controls unusable or nearly so. Wyze’s app design really suffers in several areas when it comes to poor use of contrast.
- The green and grey dots to me indicate that the menu bar can be swiped horizontally. With one green dot on the left and a grey dot on the right, I would expect to be able to swipe the menu bar right-to-left in order to reveal more options/features. Some kind of visual cue like this has long been needed. I’ve seen suggestions for use of chevrons (, ) as cues, because some users don’t realize that strip of controls can be swiped to reveal things like the Siren and Timelapse buttons. I think I understand the use of the dots, but my problem with that design paradigm in this case is that it pushes other content farther down the screen, and in a case like the microSD card recording playback timeline for some cameras and with some phone screen form factors, there’s not a lot of real estate to give up and the timeline is already difficult to use because of the limited space.
I haven’t voted, because none of the options presented here are something I would really choose, but I think it’s good that Wyze is asking these kinds of questions, and it makes me wonder something else: If something like a floodlight control, which is a direct on-camera feature, is important enough that it should be a view pane overlay element, then why doesn’t the siren get the same treatment? I’m not saying that it should. I’m just asking the question, because they seem like similar features/functions, in a way, but they’re treated/placed differently in the UI. My personal preference would be to allow user customization of what is apparently called the “menu bar”:
Thank you for asking us for more input!