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Workout Time Trial UI feedback

5898248
over 2 years ago

Time Trials need to have a prompt, an alert, or preferably both when you expect the user to carry out a button press to begin the trial. If there was an instruction, it disappeared before I could see it, and I ended up just looking at a timer for ten minutes before I couldn't run anymore and found out the activity hadn't even started. Not sure why this even requires a button press, but I allow that I can't foresee every potential scenario. There's a ton of real estate on the watch face - just a static message "press lap button to begin time trial" would be a 1000% improvement. Baffling that it's been designed this way. 

  • 0 over 2 years ago

    I am afraid you'll have to contact the author of the concerned CIQ watch face with this request. The trial mode feature of the Connect IQ API is not supported for watch faces (see it at https://developer.garmin.com/connect-iq/core-topics/trial-apps/ ), so I guess the author used an own method for limiting the use.

  • 0 over 2 years ago in reply to trux

    I'm using an out of the box feature, not a 3rd party face. Garmin Coach (a Garmin feature) schedules training activities, one of which can be a Time Trial. This is the thing I have a problem with. 

  • 0 over 2 years ago

    Why it requires a button press is so you can do your warm up and when you feel ready for the time trial start it. Maybe you need to take a walking rest or continue with your warm up for a longer time. A warm up of just 0.5 mile is a bit short for a time trial in my opinion. If it just jumped from the warm up right into the time trial you wouldn't be ready for it and lose a few seconds or not speed up quick enough. A Time Trial is the fastest you can do for that distance.

    There is an instruction displayed to you for every step of the workout.

    You should view the workout in advance so you know the different steps.

  • 0 over 2 years ago in reply to e7andy

    Ok that's a sensible scenario.

    Still a poor UI decision NOT to include a clear instruction and prompt - it can't be a heavy bit of coding to add. Why add an additional step and require users to use a separate device when you could give a simple and clear in-context instruction? This is Day 1 stuff. 

  • 0 over 2 years ago in reply to 5898248

    You don't have to use a separate device. You can view the workout steps in the watch.

    I think that most people look at the watch when they go to the next step in the workout and don't need that extra info.

    The easiest solution is to add a data field that shows more info about the workout so that the users that need some extra info can add it themselfs.

    I found this data field, but it will not work for "Until Lap Press": https://apps.garmin.com/en-US/apps/87736544-298c-438d-bac1-dafb8b0dc35d

    I wrote that to the developer so it might get fixed. It works great for distance and time.