I do NOT like the new interface :-(
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this is what android users faced long ago, complained long ago to no avail. Now it came to website. I tried to use website as much as possible - now it is the same sxxx. For some reasons - even when asking for feedback - app designers completely ignore these comments for many months, almost a year, completely infatuated with this bad and clumsy design. I find it shocking. Is this done for customers? or for themselves? If for customers - respect their comments, make it more friendly again without all these "improvements" bothering users around the globe.
I suggested long ago - if designers love this style so much - make it an option. maybe some people share this bad taste and impractical version and would use it. But create a switch that would display old style, clear and compact menu and info. Then you can still love what you did, and thousands of users really irked by this unfriendly idea would have option to "go back" or keep it simple and better.
But I guess they will never listen. They love this junky design so much no word of opinion can change it. I am considering cancelling my paid subscription. maybe if enough of us just stop paying - they will notice something is not ok. I would come back to paid when it is fixed. because they don't respect normal comments, and this "upgrade" is the proof. Sad. Spatne hlopcy.
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Put "My favourites" just above first "menu" options. There is no reason to navigate throughout a big graphic topic to find what you need most.
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Hello Windy development team. Would you in the future inform all users before you'll try to destroy something what is running well? The new interface is the best example how to make a flight preparation more complicated.
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@Koss5
Are you talking about the new browser version update ?
Favorites are at same place
And the full list in the Menu as it was before.
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@Pakebo61 Unfortunately, late data in ECMWF has its own reason and it has nothing to do with the new UI. ECMWF provides us with data much later in last days and we are trying to get further info from them.
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@Holoboss users would have it in their hands to simply stop paying. the developers' play instinct is childish and destroys their own work
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@Suty I often check the update time for different models. It is now more work to do so.
The recent interface changes, as others are writing above and below, are a big disappointment. -
@Suty said in I do NOT like the new interface :-(:
@Coelacanth Hi, yes we see these feeedbacks and consider all potential changes. However, I have to tell you that is not planned to get back to the old version, but we think about adjustments to the new version.
You folks at Windy are obviously not listening to your user base. Your answer shows both ignorance and arrogance. Not a good sign for the future.
You took a perfectly good and usable/understandable interface and changed it to something that only a programmer could like. When informed of those facts you can't admit the mistake.
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@Suty
Please tell us why you think that? I have played with it for hours and still have no clue. I can tell you that I am not going to spend 50 hours learning how to get back to the place I was a week ago before the change. -
This 'update' is terrible, waste of screen space. Who can tell the difference between all the stupid icons? Now you have to open the menu, & scroll through. New isn't always better. Bringing back the 'old' would be a major improvement.
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It is quite impressive to see (once again) how a change in management can make all the difference in the success of a product.
While the founder of Windy was a pilot and kitesurfer in need of a great weather tool, it is very obvious that the new leadership is not using their product for any real purpose, like i.e. flight preparation. Otherwise they would have figured out on there own, that the new UI broke the tool.
But as they already demonstrated with the app changes: they will not listen to the users.
So it is now time for me to move on. -
I do NOT like the new interface either.
Please is there a setting in which I can revert to previous display??? -
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It´a .0.1 Version. Good start with the potential to get and keep it clearly arranged soon. -
Another vote against the bubbles... It's much more difficult to find the correct text label for a layer when it's buried between nonsensical colorful tiles. Not only is it multiple clicks to change layers (where it was previously efficient), it's harder to navigate. MAJOR UX downgrade.
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Garbage interface, sadly. This appears to be a trend lately with mobile UI designers. Rather than support two interfaces (desktop and mobile), they'd much rather just support the mobile design.
Screw anyone who wants to use their PC on the modern web anymore, honestly. /s
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@Flachkurbler said in I do NOT like the new interface :-(:
It is quite impressive to see (once again) how a change in management can make all the difference in the success of a product.
While the founder of Windy was a pilot and kitesurfer in need of a great weather tool, it is very obvious that the new leadership is not using their product for any real purpose, like i.e. flight preparation. Otherwise they would have figured out on there own, that the new UI broke the tool.
But as they already demonstrated with the app changes: they will not listen to the users.
So it is now time for me to move on.It seems we all talk in the air. They will NOT listen.
I was using Windy every day for 0.5-2 hours and would get premium the moment they would do a simple thing to be able to get the labels off(but they ignored all my messages about that), but now I have to leave it.
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I will take the opportunity now to explain why the UI is garbage instead of just complaining:
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Everything has been blown up / enlarged. I am on desktop. Please stop wasting screen space. Less really isn't more here.
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The previous UI was intuitive. This current one is messy. UI is meant to streamline the user experience. This new UI does the exact opposite. The previous UI, I could find whatever I needed with ease. This current one, I can't even find the usual things I select from intuition.
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The new icons displaying each type of map make the whole thing disjointed. I find myself easily overwhelmed when looking at the selection screen.
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The new sidebar for the menu takes up way too much space now.
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I don't like it either. This is a step backwards. Firstly, making any changes should have a defined purpose rather than change for change sake. I'm wondering what the purpose was other than to force user to flounder around looking for simple things such as "Wind Gusts" and taking up more real-estate. There is much less data relatively apparent and its not intuitive. So far after some 10min I can not find wind gusts and can find how to animate it or play through the current weather forecast.
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Sure. Right now, with nothing pinned I have this:
I then pin, in this exact order: new snow, temperature, and wind gusts, and I get this:
Now, I add fire danger:
Now I add PM2.5
This is what I mean by not robust. There is no way to take favorites and sort them in a logical way, nor is there any way to pick favorites in any order.
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This is what I am looking at now on my laptop for the same pinned icons before the UI change.....
So now I have to commit to memory which combination/pattern of colors each icon represents as a forecast field.
At least do us the courtesy of making the icons more distinguishable or recognisable to the weather field it is representing.
It is a very pretty but meaningless array of icons.
I reckon this is my final rant ..... you have served me well in the past Windy, onto new pastures.
