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Garmin Connect web dashboard- information is now LESS accessible than before

ShiftKicker
over 1 year ago

The new update is extremely frustrating. The tiles are smaller and harder to read. The "at a glance" states you can pick 8 things to display, but only 4 show on the home page, despite there being space for more, but just sits blank. The very definition is "glance", as in easy to see with a single look, but that is the opposite of what is happening. The tiling is imbalanced, there is no ability to arrange in an order that makes the info accessible to me. In order to see anything properly I have to navigate to each thing separately- which is really poor function for something that was supposed to be new and improved and make our data more accessible. 

I am wondering if the designers see this feedback and if Garmin will actually respond to it. This has been discussed during their beta testing stage and clearly they did not listen. How incredibly disappointing. 

  • 0 over 1 year ago in reply to rockncrag

    Am cyclist, is not useful. If you're a runner then that's 2 sports that one would assume are key demographics for the tool that aren't impressed.

    Maybe the skiers do like it, any skiers going to come out in defence of the new Homepage?

    In a spirit of positivity I tried a bit harder to show some (any) useful info on the home page, there was a heart rate widget - I use a HRM when I cycle so there should be some interesting data right, no, the widget doesn't show any data and when I click it it takes me to the Heart rate page that also claims I have no data.

    This is all so dumb, who is the actual target audience for this? Are Garmin preparing to get depreciate all devices that aren't watches?

  • 0 over 1 year ago in reply to 7140837

    Its crap for mountain and hiking activities( my job and passion)

  • 0 over 1 year ago

    Taking away the dashboard is a true loss and the replacement is worthless and don’t see any possibility that it will improve. Please bring back the dashboard functionality. 

  • 0 over 1 year ago

    I fully agree. The new homepage design is useless and a nightmare for all users who had a nice custom configured home page with a lot of useful data available on one 'glance'. It is indeed extremely frustrating.

  • 0 over 1 year ago in reply to rockncrag

    this makes the most sense and aligns closest with what I felt when I saw the new interface and correlated it to what has occurred in the past. In short, Garmin has intentionally crappified the web experience in order to 1) deprecate older hardware and 2) push users to an app-only experience.

  • 0 over 1 year ago in reply to jdueck

    Just what Suunto did...  They dropped the web page, moved too pure app. And killed of many watches as well as removed many very useful features. I had used Suunto devices fpr 20+years when they did that. They offered me 20% of their new watches to replace My watch that was running perfectly fine and feature rich(for me at that time). There was outcry in the forums and beyond. And they lost a lot of user, me included, thats why I came to Garmin as folks was saying how good it was they still support very old watches and customer support was amazing etc.... yeah I get the impression Garmin watched what Suunto did and are no following suit. VERY BAD MOVE...  At this point even Xiaomi Watches are now looking much better!

  • 0 over 1 year ago

    A reasonable alternative for the web page folks https://quantified-self.io/  give it a look....    Has more potential then the useless garmin one