Hello people! First of all, I really like my new Watch Pro so far. But coming from an UI/UX/Interface background I can’t help but need to point out a few details that, in my humble opinion, are super easy to implement and at the same time would make the watch „feel“ better overall by a large margin. These are:
- When scrolling from the main watch screen to the the left to for example activities (but this is true for all the „main“ screens), the user should be then also able to scroll down to have the details of each screen available. It makes absolutely no sense that I would have press the button once to get back to main screen, press the button a second time to open the app drawer, then navigate to the activity app just to land on the exact screen I was before only to now be able to scroll down and look at the details.
- There should be an option to activate „wake on tap“. The amount of times I intuitively wanted to tap on the screen for the watch to wake up is uncountable at this point. A lot of people will do this automatically because they are used to it on other devices and it just leaves a bad impression everytime it happens.
- On a sidenote, there should also be the option to „lock“ the current watchface. It happens a lot that due to the short time necessary for you to tap and hold on the mainscreen in order to swatch watchfaces, that when you are crossing your arms for example it will tap into changing mode by accident.
- Double Tap of the Button: Why not utilize a „double tap“ of the button to directly go to the app of my choice? Like double tapping for going directly to the stopwatch or calculator or flashlight i.e.
- Haptic Feedback when pressing virtual Buttons: Since the screen can be small in certain applications like the calculator for example, it feels bad having to always control visually if the touchscreen button registered the tap/input. I think it is good practice for small touch devices to give you a little nudge when you successfully pressed any of its virtual button. Should be optional of course.
Looking forward to hear other peoples inputs and feedback on these topics. Maybe it can be some inspiration for some future software updates .
Have a wonderful day and best regards!