It’s especially problematic to ask for UI advice from the most enthusiastic and experienced users. It’s not useless, but you have to also consider the needs of people who have never seen or understood the icons, or forgotten everything they’ve learned organically about the UI. When I think about the UI (after about a year) I try to consider it from the perspective of the new users. There is a lot of knowledge people need to acquire that isn’t explained in-game, and that’s a reason why I started following the forum early. If it were my product I would want it to be much more understandable and better communicated to new users.
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I think we were lucky because we had the titaniumgeek zwift-user-manual-unofficial, looking over that web page you could find all the information on one easy read from how to pair your trainer to what the little orange arrow on the map does.
It still amazes me that 5 years later there is no replacement for it, an easy one stop al you need to know about Zwift.
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CJ’s wiki post does a great job of bringing disparate sources of information together in one place, but even that doesn’t link directly to an obvious page that lists what the power ups are for example.
There are articles in the support section, via Gearing Up for Your First Ride. The Advanced Features for Cycling page has a link to PowerUps in Zwift for example.
I do agree that there should be more of an official manual on the Zwift website.
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It’s a trainer isn’t it?
I guess so. Doesn’t look anything like mine.
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it would make slightly more sense if it looked like the one from the pairing screen
How about notifying us of updates. Being locked into the update process when sitting on our trainer and ready to go is annoying. Please notify us using existing account details, ie, email and not other social media platforms that we do not wish to adhere to.
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From companion would be even better. a push notification would be my preferred method
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Jumping onto this thread as I can’t see it discussed anywhere else usefully – as in, where someone from Zwift might take notice and do something about it – but why is the workout menu so convoluted and difficult to navigate with this new UI? If I start a ride then want to switch to a workout, I have to go through about 10 clicks to find what I want.
And every time I go to the Workouts menu it always deposits me at the top of a seemingly random ordered bunch of workouts (not alphabetical, not by duration or difficulty, not by anything). So if I’m roughly following a workout plan but doing the individual workouts in my own time, I have to navigate every single time to that plan and the workout within it. Even if I do 2 workouts in one session, it still default deposits me at the top of the menu!
Didn’t the old UI at least take you to your last attempted or completed workout, I seem to remember? Why doesn’t the new UI do that? Why is there no way to pin or favourite a plan or a set of workouts to the home screen?
Sorry for the thread hijack but after looking at topic after topic of “feature requests” only to see them all ignored, I thought I would mention how terrible the workout/plan navigation is. Any hope of seeing it improved in the near future?
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One thing that was very apparent last week when I tried to get my wife to use Zwift.
Her question was “how do I ride”. Which to me was a really silly question. But when I viewed the home screen with her. It’s very not obvious to brand new users how to ‘just ride’
She didn’t want to do an event, or workout or anything social. Just jump on the bike and ride.
Worlds? Not interested. We had scroll to the bottom to go select a world / route. Which confounded her further, what’s a world? Do i have to ride all the route? Is it hard? “I just want ride”Now we can all laugh at these really silly questions. But all she wanted was to sit on my bike and have a go, 5mins in, frustration was starting to settle in…
I think front and center we need the ‘Just Ride’ option back. Random World, random route. Go!
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Why don’t do both:
I personally click often on the links at the right (except for connect, normally I am already connected) so I hope they stay (make them even bigger). drops can go.
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I would prefer something like this, and really dislike the idea of moving existing icons off the top menu bar and putting them into a drop down menu. I primarily use an OG AppleTV4k with the bad remote so the fewer small menus the better. My secondary device is a Microsoft Surface Pro with touchscreen so again the fewer small menus the better.
If the menu is going to happen regardless, please make the spacing of selections large enough that the ATV remote doesn’t skip 4 rows by barely touching it, and so those with touchscreens and large fingers can touch 1 selection instead of 2-3.
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This is amazing. You are saying that people cant understand what an icon is and what it is for.
Every mobile phone, except my dads who is 92 yrs old, has nothing but icons on the screens for each app we have on the phone.
Just do the same as phones do and have the name of the function, area, typed underneath the icon.
Its so simple.
We dont need menus and sub menus to click through.
But on the home SCREEN.YOU DO NEED TO ADVERTISE WHAT EACH SECTION OF TILES ARE. Ie, training rides/ workouts, Robo pacer rides, free ride courses, etc.
Just remember this …KISS .
Keep it Simple Stupid. 
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