Zwift Play + Action Bar UX issues re: Action skipping / button mapping?

Feature Requests
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Hiya Zwift makers and coding wizards!
I’m an early adopter of the Zwift Play and love them so much. They are an essential part of my kit now. Thank you for making them!

My request/issue/bug:
About three times in the past few months, I’ve been in 2hr+ workouts (not sim riding or racing), and I’ve inadvertently smashed the ‘skip segment’ button while using my Zwift Play. I’m sweaty, a bit bonked, my vision is not the best, and everything starts to look the same.

Sure, it’s a small thing, but it totally breaks a full workout, and if you’re in a 30 min segment, it truly sucks!

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I appreciate the complexity of creating a ‘rewind/go-back’ button to do a segment in a workout a second time (or a do-over), so I’m not asking for that… but it would also be great to have that too.

Is there any way that you can create at least a two-step system or an “ARE YOU SURE?” dialog box in the UI to avoid being able to skip a section of a workout so easily?
I’ve also skipped a work section by accident with the zwift play controller by holding down the Y button, and I would strongly request you add another “ARE YOU SURE?” dialog option to force confirmation from the user or, even better, give the user the option to disable that button mapping in system settings.

  • Alternate option? Some of the action bar options are pressed once to bump up to another set of options. Could ‘skip block’ move to an upper bar set of options prompting the user to “skip” or “go back” ? That feels more cumbersome than just adding the ‘confirmation’ dialog. I think the best option is a highly visible Y/N dialog box that forces the user to confirm their intent.

I acknowledge the value and usefulness of a block-skipping button, but it’s way too easy to hit it in the middle of any workout when you actually want to drop an emote, or change a view, and not skip a whole workout section.

Ultimately, I’d like to have full control of all of Zwift Play’s button mapping and the freedom to add whatever icons/functions I want in the action bar. I’d love to have quick shortcuts to ‘ride on’ one or two buttons for my preferred views, maybe an erg/incline button mode. It would be great to be able to make the action bar nice and short so it’s more responsive to a rider’s needs, and also to remove the hair-trigger ‘skip block’ button! I can crank up the intensity from my controller! I don’t need a button in the action bar for that.

Thanks for your consideration, and thanks for building us an awesome world to ride and run in! :pray: :biking_man: :tropical_drink:
jay w

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what were you trying to do when you did this?

i failing to see how you could accidentally hold down the Y button, you do have to hold it down for quite a while and it is positioned out of the way. Not saying you didn’t, just cant get my head round how you’d do it an if you did how often that might happen?

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what were you trying to do when you did this?

I was probably trying to pause the workout, but more likely trying to hit the smiley face. Although the selected button is generally in the middle, it’s pretty easy to think you’re on one and not the other.

i failing to see how you could accidentally hold down the Y button, you do have to hold it down for quite a while and it is positioned out of the way. Not saying you didn’t, just cant get my head round how you’d do it an if you did how often that might happen?

:man_shrugging: Do you have a Zwift Play controller? It’s happened twice to me, but it’s less of an issue than the action bar menu.

I hold down the B button a lot to drop Zwift bombs, and it only takes one subtle finger movement to hold down Y instead of B. They are like a centimeter apart, and the on-screen dialog looks very similar. My vision isn’t amazing either, but like any gamer, I regularly hit the wrong button on the joystick.

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Yes I do have the controllers.

It is the z button you want for ride ons not the b button. One is the left most button and one is the upper most button. You can just take a second to feel that you have the correct one before holding it down, even with your eyes closed this should be possible.

Maybe at the start of your workout press up and move the arrow to the left of the action bar so that next time you press up it’ll be away from the workout buttons so you won’t select them by accident.