Concerned about the home screen

[shenfrey]

At first I was excited about it but the more videos I watch and the more I think about it the less sure I become with it.

It's the 'universe' it sounds simple to begin with, just browse to the app you want, and click it. Well what happens when you have tonnes of apps which I am sure will eventually happen. Can you imagine the amount of scrolling around on that tiny display you will be doing? We take it for granted because on an iPhone we simply swipe down and type what we want when we have so many apps and it's instant. On Apple Watch it's not that simple nor is it as elegant.

I am just worried that it's going to become nauseating, so much so that I may deliberately install fewer apps just to avoid this problem.

What do you guys think?

 

[Brian Y]

At first I was excited about it but the more videos I watch and the more I think about it the less sure I become with it.

It's the 'universe' it sounds simple to begin with, just browse to the app you want, and click it. Well what happens when you have tonnes of apps which I am sure will eventually happen. Can you imagine the amount of scrolling around on that tiny display you will be doing? We take it for granted because on an iPhone we simple swipe down and type what we want and it's instant, here it's not that simple nor is it as elegant.

I am just worried that it's going to become nauseating, so much so that I may deliberately install fewer apps just to avoid this problem.

What do you guys think?

I don't think there will be any scrolling. Zoom out, smart zoom into an area, job done.

 

[shenfrey]

Concerned about the home screen

I don't think there will be any scrolling. Zoom out, smart zoom into an area, job done.

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I still think that will become annoying eventually as you still need to scroll to the area your app is in. Then zoom. Then click.

 

[gsmornot]

Siri, launch....(fill in the blank)

We now have a bigger reason to have her around.

 

[oennich]

I don't think it'll be that bad, you could think of it as a map, and I'm sure you know your way around your town. For lots of apps I think it's better than several pages with about nine - twelve apps on each page.

(Got nine - twelve from the old contacts page when you double press the side button)

 

[johnkim]

Make use of Glances.
Set it active for the apps you use most so that you can access information fast and tap on it to launch the app.

 

[Patriot24]

I'm not convinced that most people will spend enough time navigating around the watch that it will matter. First and foremost, I think the interaction model is Get a Notification > Choose to Act or Dismiss > Go on with the day.

 

[smiddlehurst]

Remember this isn't a phone, interactions will be very different. Think a lot of people are going to find their standard means of launching an app will be from a notification rather than the main menu. There may be a few apps you launch regularly (fitness is the obvious one I suspect) but it'll be less than you think...

 

[kdarling]

Siri, launch....(fill in the blank)

We now have a bigger reason to have her around.

Yeah, that's how Android Wear was designed: to use voice to launch things.

As it turns out, most people don't like doing that in public.

So now they making their apps page easier to reach. (Something that third parties had already done with addon launchers.)

I'm betting both systems add folders before too long.

 

[kdarling]

I don't think it'll be that bad, you could think of it as a map, and I'm sure you know your way around your town. For lots of apps I think it's better than several pages with about nine - twelve apps on each page.

I think the lack of icon labels, was a poorly thought out idea.

 

[3square]

At first I was excited about it but the more videos I watch and the more I think about it the less sure I become with it.

It's the 'universe' it sounds simple to begin with, just browse to the app you want, and click it. Well what happens when you have tonnes of apps which I am sure will eventually happen. Can you imagine the amount of scrolling around on that tiny display you will be doing? We take it for granted because on an iPhone we simply swipe down and type what we want when we have so many apps and it's instant. On Apple Watch it's not that simple nor is it as elegant.

I am just worried that it's going to become nauseating, so much so that I may deliberately install fewer apps just to avoid this problem.

What do you guys think?

yup i agree.
made a post here about it
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1868628/

i actually preferred this layout.

 

[iFanaddic]

Siri, launch....(fill in the blank)

We now have a bigger reason to have her around.

That's if you remember the name of the app.. NO ICON LABELS!!!

 

[leesweet]

I know what you mean, but remember that you can/will enable only the apps you want for the Watch. You don't have to have all AW capable apps on your watch, if you know what I means. For example, I have Zillow, which has an AW extension. I may say I never want to use it on the watch. So, I don't enable it in the AW app.

Having said that, I agree there could be app icon overload soon!

 

[Night Spring]

I think the lack of icon labels, was a poorly thought out idea.

I agree, labels would help, but the screen is so tiny there isn't room for that.

 

[mprofit]

At first I was excited about it but the more videos I watch and the more I think about it the less sure I become with it.

It's the 'universe' it sounds simple to begin with, just browse to the app you want, and click it. Well what happens when you have tonnes of apps which I am sure will eventually happen. Can you imagine the amount of scrolling around on that tiny display you will be doing? We take it for granted because on an iPhone we simply swipe down and type what we want when we have so many apps and it's instant. On Apple Watch it's not that simple nor is it as elegant.

I am just worried that it's going to become nauseating, so much so that I may deliberately install fewer apps just to avoid this problem.

What do you guys think?

Also, remember that you can move and arrange apps just like you can on the iPhone/iPad. So maybe you keep all the apps you regularly use in the "inner circle" of apps that surrounds the clock app icon, and the less used ones go farther outside. Or bundle good apps in one area and less favored ones in another - think the app folders on iPhones that people make for the stock Apple apps. I'm not really sure the full extent that app icons can be moved around - can we have more than one cluster, for example? - but I imagine people will find a way to intuitively arrange things.