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1050 issues / software ux improvements

SAVELLOA
10 months ago

A few pieces of feedback for you, Garmin software folks, on the new 1050

  1. Data field formatting should be improved and optimized for the new display resolution.

    1. Gearing datafield wasnt updated for the resolution increase. It's hard to read and they waste so much space. Can you fix this finally on the 1050?

      The front chainring bars still smash into the X/2 text which looks sloppy and distracting. 
      The bars' grey outlines are too hard to read on the new rez - they're too thin. make them black and thicken their outlines
      use the white space! make the bars shorter and use up that space. looks silly
      move the cassette X/11 out from under the varia icon (i know it's positional and only is issue in top location but this generally applies to all datafields)

    2. Can you come up with another way to show the radar is active besides covering datafields?

    3. Why does a brand new power zone graphical datafield (see image) have the singles digit 1 pixel from the edge? I'm assuming it's to allow for over 1k watts to display but just adjust the colored bars to the left slightly to make it not look so silly and distracting.

    4. Generally most data fields are identical to x40 x30 units. Didn't bother to improve their graphics, text size, font, etc with the new display. pretty silly bc while the screen looks good some pages can still look like they're from the 2000s. Improve fonts, increase font sizes, center text in the fields (both in X but also Y)

  2. the new swipe-to-display more data on Climb Pro and Strava Segments is nice but it doesnt persist so if you change screens and then return, it resets. frustrating if you switch screens a lot. please make it persist for a ride at least.

  • 0 4 months ago

    The UI/UX is so terrible.  For 1x, I don't understand why the gearing data field shows a single chainring that doesn't update Joy.  Why not just show the cassette cogs? Surely Garmin could create a better visualization with that space.

    The radar overlay is really annoying as well.  And then add to the fact that Error 0:9 blocks 25% of the screen with a modal error that has to be manually cleared.  When I'm riding in the city this happens every 15-30 minutes.

    With the larger display, why can't we have 12 data fields instead of 10?  I have a lot of sensors connected.  I could probably go up to 14 data fields.

    Oh, and what about the fact that we're still rocking a "ABCDEF" keyboard in 2024?  I'm pretty sure this is the same touchscreen keyboard that they implemented for the Nuvi in 1998.