Larger icons for age-related long-sightedness?

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Gary Smith

• May 18, 2021 23:01

I'm 58 and my eyesight is going - I need glasses to read but am OK for long-sight.  I find the icons on the Karoo 2 too small to see which makes it difficult to use effectively on the road/trail.  Is there any chance that the icons can be made larger and more distinctive?

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  Håkan Gustafsson

  • May 20, 2021 07:51

  I wish that the icon for locking/unlocking the map could change color or something. Now, the icon on the lower left switches between a locked/unlocked padlock. My eyes are too old to see the difference out in the field.

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  Jan DG

  • May 20, 2021 10:49

  Also larger icons for the turn-by-turn navigation instructions would be very useful.

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  Jami

  • May 22, 2021 21:14

  Hey all!

  Thanks for the feedback - I'll admit that there are a few things I have issues seeing as well!

  It is quite the balancing act that our Product Team plays to cater to everyone's needs - making something larger means making something else smaller or obscuring another element. Many considerations need to be made for clear vs cluttered screens, visibility of colors, different light conditions, etc. We appreciate every piece of feedback we receive around this topic because everyone has different needs and circumstances. It is impossible to understand every variation or situation so working to understand real experiences is the best way to deliver a top-notch product.

  Keep the great feedback coming!

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  John Houlihan

  • May 23, 2021 16:29

  Jami, these age related sight issues could be addressed by options in the setup or options when editing the profiles. I imagine setting scaling factors between the metric and its icon means the user could then choose what they need having already chosen the number of fields on the screen (the fewer fields the bigger the text).
  
  The user would set the general scaling factor in Setup and then be able to adjust it for each data field in the Profile.
  
  One thing that attracted me to Karoo was the hope that the user would have more input into how the data is displayed.

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  Gary Smith

  • May 24, 2021 17:39
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  These are the icons that need to be much bigger and more distinctive.  Having a tiny icon in the middle of a large square is useless to long-sighted folk like me.  The icon could easily be much larger and more distinctive within the square and therefore much easier to understand.

  

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  Rob Hague

  • May 24, 2021 18:57
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  Android already has a scale option that could be used doesn't it?
  Sure I remember a 'small/medium/large' text setting in there - perhaps using that/something similar for icon scaling?
  
  As Gary said - fill the box, there is no UI space change needed there. The Montana I moved from had chunky icons that were easier on the eye.
  
  It's the small play/pause in bottom right that I muffed first ride. Sure can see it fine when sitting playing with the device but I'm all fingers and thumbs in gloves and watching the road, etc. and getting the initial brightness 'just so'.

   

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  Richard Soltes

  • July 19, 2022 03:32

  Remember, older riders spend proportionally more on stuff like bike computers/GPS

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