Trainer Pacer and Menu Organization to help new users

Feature Requests
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As a new user, I wanted to highlight the the areas I found confusing and offer some opinions. I appreciate the recent updates to My Fitness. The recovery summary in particular cleared up some big questions of mine. It would be nice to see an option here to quickly update your improvement rate.

Two things I think would help new users:

  1. Navigation menu:

    1. Make Home\My Fitness a top level item like Power Curve or Newsfeed.
      When I click home, it should take me straight to My Fitness. Why is Power Curve more important for a user to visit frequently?
      Move Profile Settings and Rankings under the user drop down under Add Profile where it belongs.
    2. Rename/move “Dashboard”. Why is Training\Dashboard named this way? I keep clicking this thinking Im going to My Fitness. Ideally, Training should also be a top level item with Favourites and Table being tabs/button/link navigable from “Dashboard”. At the very least, rename “Dashboard” to anything else like “Recent” or “Details”.

  2. Trainer Pacer:
    Change the colors and make the tomorrow triangle less important. This is a mock-up of how i think it should look based on the wiki and forum posts trying to explain what the dials mean:

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main arrow indicates current status
secondary arrow indicates tomorrow’s status and is clearly secondary
why do you even need an outer ring? it just overcomplicates

Color iconography is tough because of how societal its based, but targeting a grey zone felt bad. In my opinion, color is desired, no color is not wanted. I would even argue for making the farthest right zone grey as well.

My understanding is that this thing just lets you know if you’re on plan. Thus, if you are at either edge, that’s neither bad or good - it is just suggesting you need to rethink your plan: change your goals or improvement rate, etc. A gradient would work best for this with its brightest point at the target fading to grey on either end.

The wiki is OK and explains everything if you read it carefully, but contextual pop-up text would work magic here.

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I also think that the menu can be cleaned up and better organized.

  • Less used screens should be hidden lower in the structure. As you mentioned, Power Curve is not something you use every day. Or ever.
  • Change Program should be after Home.
  • Items such as communities, apps, sync, and newsfeed are probably not used that much.

Maybe you can suggest a new layout tree?

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