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Why did Garmin make it more time consuming to enter a workout?!!

This new update is horrible! Users have to do several extra steps to enter a workout and the UI is wasting a ton of space! Apps and sites like this should be designed to make it as easy as possible for a user to enter info. I used to just add a step and all the metrics were right there in a row. Now I have to click "edit" the step, then the screen expands showing the metrics vertically instead of in a nice clean row and then I have to click "done" after each step when it used to just know I was done when I clicked the next one. Of course I want to edit a brand new workout, I cannot leave it blank! Why would it be asking me to click all that. Total waste of time and super clunky! Not to mention that when trying to reorder things, you are using old technology and it never puts the step where you want it without trying several times. I am in app development and I would never make my users take MORE steps than they used to!! Please fix this or you will definitely lose customers!

0 MikeL over 4 years ago

AGREED. If they did any user observations or any time studies on workout entries they would have seen this is much slower and more cumbersome. I basically NEVER run the same workout, my coach changes distances or paces or distances all the time. It used to be easy to make all the changes in one screen and hit save. I would LOVE to be on a beta site or early adopters list (signing NDA or whatever) to help give feedback on feature changes like this. I'm truly disappointed and would love to help make this better!

0 WillNorthYork over 4 years ago

Yep, the user experience is bad, especially when you reorder steps. IMO, Garmin has a track record of putting UX last. Just look all the issues in these forums (someone else may have developed this forum platform, but Garmin chose it.)

All I can say is the workout editor in the Garmin Connect Mobile (iOS) is slightly better, but not by much. The "drag handle" and the close button for a step are right next to each other. But then again you can drag a step without even using the drag handle, so it's obviously only there to suggest that the step can be dragged....

0 SoPossible over 4 years ago in reply to MikeL

YES! I would too!

0 PaulDN81 over 4 years ago

I completely agree, this new interface is not an improvement.

0 lostintranslation over 4 years ago

I'm setting up a workout for a time trial I'm doing tomorrow and the new interface is terrible!! Does anyone from Garmin read these fora? Could they explain why they think this new editor is an improvement?

0 BabaGanoush over 4 years ago

Agreed

0 TwanVeugelers over 4 years ago

Completely agree, what a hell.

Further more, now I need a speed converter, as it is no longer possible to enter speed as an intensity goal. So I constantly have to look at my phone, using the speed converter app.

This is horrible, I used to be finished in very short time, now I'm already busy editing an existing workout for 15 minutes, only as one additional run block was added.

This is ridiculous.