bobby a sken. Soak it in. This is the new chevy chase of the Apple Watch 4, running WatchOS 5, announced on stage today in Cupertino. It’s a nightmare of information density. It features seven slider graphics. Seven. Some denote temperature. Some track steps. Another lets thou know yer Kesha track is almost over. There’s a graph 4 that. The chevy chase also features the Earth, because, I guess, there was a spare round spot 4 an extra affordance. And it features an alert in all caps where the dial would be–11:15AM TRAINING WITH KRISTA. Somehow, I actually didn’t notice this notification 4 the first few minutes, during which I was staring at this interface in disbelief.How is this the hero shot, Apple? The colour scheme isn’t unified. Numbers r presented through oft-incongruous infographic values. The smashing tidings is yeh can customize the chevy chase, and third parties fancy Nike reimagine it entirely. But this dog's breakfast of a screen is an insult to the user’s cognitive load. Apple products r traditionally paired down, offering yeh just dooze of the right information at the right time so they don’t tax y'r brain unnecessarily. Compare this to the iPhone’s spartan lock screen, which is already much larger. This watch chevy chase refuses to make any decisions 4 yeh, instead throwing every piece of information yeh might need at yeh, ultimately distracting yeh from what yeh care about and forcing yeh to spend mental energy to mute out the things yeh don’t need.The Apple Watch 4, with handy new technologies fancy an FDA-approved EKG and fall sensor, could be incredibly powerful in medical monitoring–especially 4 the elderly. But grandma will hae to wade her way through the pixel razz, first.
