New HR Recovery interface is brilliant

Hate it.

I know you do. I on the other hand love it.

As I cannot see Garmin reversing this change I suggest you get used to it.

I'm hoping they would make more improvements to make it better. Anything that would lessen the need of button presses it now needs, but usually it's pretty pointless to expect them to do anything and if I would need to pick, I would like them to fix the Swimrun first.

Oh, and the recovery hr screen is good, compared to the notification, that is nice, but the whole process is not.

10 button presses to save with recovery hr now, before it was just 3 button presses. This is my problem with it. Or 2 presses, if you take time from some external source to see that 2 minutes has passed, but then you don't know what the recovery hr was without external tools.

jmto said:

10 button presses to save with recovery hr now, before it was just 3 button presses. This is my problem with it.

That's a problem for better interface?  What's next?  Adding another 10 seconds for a better GPS fix?  Say it isn't so.

tess said:

That's a problem for better interface?

Yes, better UI/UX is not 7 more presses, even if the recovery hr screen itself is better. This is pretty basic UI/UX stuff. Eg. Ability like directly save from the recovery HR screen would drop the presses to 6.

tess said:

Adding another 10 seconds for a better GPS fix? 

If the technology requires it, then it's just something that has to be so.

jmto said:

then it's just something that has to be so

If adding more button presses solves issues people had in the past, so be it.  That being the case, what is your argument other than the sake of arguing?  

jmto said:

Yes, better UI/UX is not 7 more presses,

A better user interface or better user experience is one that works better for everyone as a whole, not just you.  The amount of button presses in this case is irrelevant.

The number of button presses is exactly the point (or at least the point I was trying to make). Before the info just popped up automatically, now I have to remember to check for it, and that takes 6x as many button pushes. How is that objectively an improvement or brilliant?

Obviously, you can say you prefer pushing buttons, no one can argue with that, and that might be fun for you, but that still makes it objectively less efficient than it was before. I like using fountain pens, it's fun for me, but not more efficient than using a roller ball. I'd never try to argue that point.

Nor is it clear when the recovery HR is taken. Before it was always after two minutes, now? Is it measured continuously? I don't believe we know.

In any case, this definitely doesn't call for personal attacks by some posters, that's just tiresome and unnecessary, and doesn't help anyone. Some like it, some don't - fine.

PS: If Garmin decided to put this readily available information in the Connect app or the web it would solve this problem as far as I'm concerned, I just wouldn't bother with the watch for this, and then it could take 15 button pushes for all I care :)

Levon said:

Obviously, you can say you prefer pushing buttons, no one can argue with that, and that might be fun for you, but that still makes it objectively less efficient than it was before.

You can can say someone prefers to push buttons and finds enjoyment in that.  It would be stupid, but you could say it.  But to say it's less efficient than before is subjective.  I've read the thread you started.  Just as who knows explained to you in that thread, this works much better for those who forget to wait the 2 mins for recovery HR as the old way had it and there's no longer a need to stop a needless recovery HR countdown when someone pauses an activity for more than two minutes.  You and jmto make me laugh with your thought process.  The two of you are like the guy on the bus that travels from A to Z and gets pissed anytime there's a stop in between.  There are many on that bus that say please make a stop because I don't need stop at Z and walk back where I need to go.  But the the two of you don't see it that way.  You don't want any stops in between because it's all about you.  It doesn't matter that stopping makes it easier for all.  You're here to tell us it's better to take the bus to point Z where the two of you get off and the rest of us are better off walking back to where we need to go.  I guess Garmin thought more of our request than your couple of extra button pushes.

Like it now better than before.