IQ Watch faces / Quality of graphics

"Anti-aliasing"

It's when the edges of a diagonal or curved line (ie, not a perfectly straight horizontal or vertical line) are "blended" with the background to make it appear smoother and less pixelated.

The Garmin watchfaces all do this - most CIQ watchfaces do not. But some do. Most of the CIQ watchfaces that have anti-aliasing say so in the title or description.

Here's a magnified example. If you stand 5-10 meters back from your computer screen while looking at this image, it will help you understand why watchfaces that incorporate anti-aliasing look crisper.

Old topic, but still relevant in my view.

Browsing through Connect IQ is a pain. Three reasons:

1. Hard to find quality watch faces. I have found just three: Retro Quartz Digital, Dot Matrix Watch Face, and DividedTime. The ratings are hardly informative because taste is not democratic. People study to become designer. The LE Japan watch is a good example but it's limited edition. Other Garmin designs are not good, at least not by European standards.

2. Payment system is ridiculous: through all kinds of dodgy schemes you can pay the developer to obtain a key of some sorts. This is clearly not something the average user wants to try out and inferior to any other app store out there.

3. You cannot delete apps from your phone to make place for new ones. To delete, you need to connect to your computer. This makes no sense.

Translucent displays are useful, not pretty. But this should not mean that design can be left out. Quite the contrary, good design compensates for the shortcomings of translucent displays.

Are you aware that most of the developers in the appstore are private people who have it as a hobby to develop the apps ? How do you think a payment system should be organized, so that every developer in the world receives his money immediately and you in return the unlock code ? As I said, Garmin has nothing to do with these apps.
And what makes you think that you can not delete apps on the watch via phone ? Your statement is not true. Of course you can delete apps from phone. On the phone itself is also no storage space occupied for the apps. You only see a history of all apps loaded so far.

In my opinion, there are very many beautiful watchfaces in the appstore. If you don't like them all, there is nothing to stop you from programming your own beautiful watchfaces and making them available for all of us ;)

I'm curious whether these are then free, or you want to have money for it. And if you want to be paid for it, I'm curious which payment system you can offer, which we all also like to use.

STB said:

3. You cannot delete apps from your phone to make place for new ones. To delete, you need to connect to your computer. This makes no sense.

You don’t need to delete them from your phone as they’re not stored there. That’s simply a list of previously installed things to make it easy to find them again

But you can uninstall watch faces, data fields etc from the watch using the phone. They then move to the previously installed list and also removed from the device

1. I program a lot for free and everything I produce is offered for free. I also don't mind paying for apps if they are well-made. I don't like dodgy payment systems though.
2. Something similar to the Apple app store would make payments easier, allow highlighting quality apps (and watchfaces), as well as imposing a certain quality standard.
3. Maybe I don't get the deletion, but in my case, the removed apps are in the same list ("uninstalled") as apps that still have to be installed, which is at least confusing. 

In my opinion, people have bad taste, so they will like many ugly things, but that is not good a business model. Call me an Apple fanboy, but I appreciate good design and the "less is more" principle. I also like sports, which I why I have Garmin devices, but I would prefer to have the best of both worlds.

Yes to all. The user designs are all over the place, and mostly are hard to look at. Garmin should've come up with more official watch faces.

However regarding #3 you can delete watch faces from the connectIQ app on your phone.