Please bring back the previous interface for desktop
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@Suty I prefer the original UI. It was easy to navigate and had very useful features that have been dropped. Some specifics: the pictorial icons are meaningless. Use simple monochrome icons that represent the function and are easy to identify. Also, keep the icon background solid so that the text can be easily read. Text with the transparent background overlaps map text and is difficult to read. There are many other design problems related to navigation and ease of use. Basically you've taken a really good UI and turned it into a visual circus.
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@Suty said in Please bring back the previous interface for desktop:
@ramzik99 Do you have any specific issues or unanswered questions about the new UI? I would like to help you to better understand the new design.
Judging from the voluminous feedback to the contrary, perhaps it is you who needs to understand the new UI (and how it is losing windy profits and userbase).
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I thought I would wait this time and give the new interface a chance but I am so frustrated. More of the map is now covered with icons that are too similar to distinguish between. You had the best interface in the market and someone in your organization seems focused on moving it to something that is harder to navigate. If something isn't broken then why break it?
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@Suty The icons are associated with the layer´s color schemes, but there are also color-blind users, others have changed them.
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@Suty The implementation of the new interface isn't very functional. The icons are not easily clustered into groups on the screen; ie wind, on top, then precipitation, next humidity. They install randomly and don't provide any indication of what data set they reference until you hover over it. So it basically becomes a exercise in "hunt and peck. In my case, the icons display in a minimum of two rows which uses more screen real estate then I'd like to lose. IMO, this new UI has degraded the quality of the Windy project.
Simply, on the mobile platform this works. On the the desktop it doesn't, it's just annoying. So much so I'll probably cancel my premium subscription and go back to another weather app. -
@idefix37 On the mobile app it works. How it's used in on the desktop doesn't. Instead of just "getting use it it", the bad user experience, I for one will probably discontinue my subscription.
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@Raven-Gray Hi there, we are testing the new update where layers are grouped in the menu and you can adjust the homepage list of layers as you wish.
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Okay so, I still think the new data set icons are less effective then the older UI, but, I seem to have found a "glitch" or "fix" as the case may be.
In earlier posts I mentioned the icons didn't display any text noting context and that they, the icons were large-ish and in my case formed multiple rows which needlessly took up screen space.
By "empty map" the icons returned to a smaller size, display text and form a single row on the right side of the screen. Pretty much like the older UI.
So for those finiding oversized icon to be chaotic and annoying go to the Display on map menu and "empty map". -
@Suty Please allow the enabling of labels... Nothing is more important that that. Icons that look like screen grab of a map are meaningless to me.
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@Suty said in Please bring back the previous interface for desktop:
@ramzik99 Do you have any specific issues or unanswered questions about the new UI? I would like to help you to better understand the new design.
For starters, let's offer users the opportunity to have dark mode especially in the forums. Most people use Chrome and your fonts are ridiculously light, thin, and difficult to view on a white background. While there are Extension visual enhancers, they still can't fix the degree of how light the fonts are. Clearly, your team have not tested on Chrome but Edge which doesn't have as serious issue.
And the reason I came here is to report the new GUI with the legend avatars (whatever they're called) for clouds, wind, and more on the right sidebar. They are interfering and overlapping with the map and we have difficulty in selecting the appropriate legend we want to use.
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@Raven-Gray said in Please bring back the previous interface for desktop:
@Suty The implementation of the new interface isn't very functional. The icons are not easily clustered into groups on the screen; ie wind, on top, then precipitation, next humidity. They install randomly and don't provide any indication of what data set they reference until you hover over it. So it basically becomes a exercise in "hunt and peck. In my case, the icons display in a minimum of two rows which uses more screen real estate then I'd like to lose. IMO, this new UI has degraded the quality of the Windy project.
Simply, on the mobile platform this works. On the the desktop it doesn't, it's just annoying. So much so I'll probably cancel my premium subscription and go back to another weather app.Yes, that's what I mean. Asking us to experiment with layers that you are testing isn't a solution especially since you're not providing guidance and instructions.
Next time, I suggest disabling beta or new features and have users opt-in as a beta before implementing without full user input (not do what Google does and only listens to their Google employees around the world). Those people aren't typically wired like us "normal" people.
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@rogerbcooper I agree. @Suty please listen to us. It's not that we don't want or like change, but the change you have forced upon us is terrible and hasn't taken into account what us average users expect.
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@Suty The new inteface is just not usefull. Those icons are way too big and confusing. I would like to have the small icons for better overview and faster navigation.
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@Suty the previous version no-labels why not work?
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Is there a possibility to return to the previous interface for laptop users. The new one is terrible.
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@Hmm_888 in the forums? Do you mean community pages or something in the app?
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Almost all design disasters come from the fundamental mistake of providing the same user interface for both, mobile devices and desktop PCs. Which inevitably restricts, minimalizes and impoverishes the very different ergonomic potential of Desktop PC's interfaces.
This basic, conceptual flaw is the mother of all aberrations and sins with today's graphical user interfaces. It started with the hideous ergonomics and looks of Windows 10. Since then, it spreads everywhere and stops nowhere at graphical user endpoints. Windy isn't spared.
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@Manfred-Herz said in Please bring back the previous interface for desktop:
@Suty The new inteface is just not usefull. Those icons are way too big and confusing. I would like to have the small icons for better overview and faster navigation.
Why have icons at all? No matter how big or small, you can't 'read' them. All they do is take up space.
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@ramzik99 I agree 100%. They turned it into a cartoon for 3 year olds. I used to be able to slid the altitude bar from ground to whatever altitude (in millibars) I wanted to check. This use to be a good site and the cost for Premium was worth it. Not so much now. It's almost as bad as the new aviation weather page. I want to see surface winds and 500mb winds. The slider used to be on the right, now it's a horizontal slider (height is a vertical measurement) buried somewhere. I don't want to have to hunt for the damn slider.
