Yeah, I don't know how I feel about the new app. The old one was basically the same but still somehow a little interesting. I don't know if it's the new font, or the sickly grey-green they decided to use, but the redesign just looks kind of anemic and sad.
And yeah, the whitespace sucks, everything is so spaced out and you have to scroll. I always thought good web design (and now app design) was ensuring all the important stuff was visible before having to scroll. Google has apparently gone to a rival school where the tenet is "always be scrolling".
I completely agree. I really liked the old design - it was bright and engaging, information was right where I wanted it, and there wasn't a ton of whitespace. The new design looks like it's meant for the elderly - everything is so big and cartoonish. Hate hate hate.
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bappity@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 2y
an option for dark mode should be priority for any mobile app. suprised there's no option for Fitbit yet
Fiivemacs@lemmy.ca · 13 pts · 2y
Dark mode should be mandatory and blind my vision mode the afterthought.
ryan@the.coolest.zone · 3 pts · 2y
Yeah, I don't know how I feel about the new app. The old one was basically the same but still somehow a little interesting. I don't know if it's the new font, or the sickly grey-green they decided to use, but the redesign just looks kind of anemic and sad.
And yeah, the whitespace sucks, everything is so spaced out and you have to scroll. I always thought good web design (and now app design) was ensuring all the important stuff was visible before having to scroll. Google has apparently gone to a rival school where the tenet is "always be scrolling".
Stovetop@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
klemptor@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 2y
I completely agree. I really liked the old design - it was bright and engaging, information was right where I wanted it, and there wasn't a ton of whitespace. The new design looks like it's meant for the elderly - everything is so big and cartoonish. Hate hate hate.
ijeff@lemdro.id · 2 pts · 2y
I'd personally like to see a customizable open-source alternative to the app without the push toward subscriptions.
jetsetdorito@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 2y
I'm pretty sure they removed manual activity entries which seems weird to gut
saucyraichu@lemdro.id · 1 pts · 2y
I can still manually add activities:
jetsetdorito@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 2y
I cant, which is annoying since I know sometimes on long drives it's counted thousands of steps and I've manually logging "driving" cleared them out
it could be a phased rollout with the new UI but this seems like such a weird thing so roll out in stages
https://i.ibb.co/Fx0vc0W/Screenshot-20231019-235702.png
GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 2y
I agree that this app needs dark mode, but if I had to guess, it's probably not that hard now that they've started adopting Material You in the app.
Famous last words obviously
colonial@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
Too late, already moved to Garmin after my third dead Charge 5 in ~1.5 years.