I think it would be nice if you could add the actual graphics of the booster and research tokens when you hover on them. I ended up pulling them out of my game to visualize it better and still accidentally picked the wrong one once.
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Suggestion: graphics on tooltip
You can try the new UI on testdev.boardgamers.space and click "alternate UI" in the sidebar. It should help out a lot.
For research, you can directly click on the research track when advancing. No need to click one of the buttons.