Here’s a chart that explains the Apple Watch user interface so well, you’ll have the UI memorized by the time your smartwatch comes in the mail.
Since I’ve yet to do so much as go into an Apple Store to see an Apple Watch in person, I’ve found myself a bit confused, trying to understand the Watch’s UI. How do you switch apps? How do you access the home screen? And so on.
Apparently, I’m not the only one confused by the Apple Watch UI. In response to tech reviewers and other people online complaining that the smartwatch’s UI is “too complicated”, reddit user Macamacamac put together a handy flowchart showing how it works in action.
Some users on reddit are complaining that the chart is too complicated, and honestly, it’s not the best infographic work I’ve ever seen. But as a simple chart showing the flow of the Apple Watch, I think this gives a good overview, as well as shows just how fluid the Apple Watch UI can be when you get used to it.
Source: reddit
John Brownlee is a writer for Fast Company, and a contributing writer here at CoM. He has also written for Wired, Playboy, Boing Boing, Popular Mechanics, VentureBeat, and Gizmodo. He lives in Boston with his wife and two parakeets. You can follow him here on Twitter.
17 responses to “Confused about the Apple Watch UI? Memorize this cheat sheet”
What is going on with the Guided Tour movies on the Apple website? For weeks there have been three watchable movies and below a bunch of greyed out Coming Soon placeholders. That really seems un-like Apple to reveal that it either hasn’t gotten around to creating the marketing material or the Watch software is so incomplete the marketing team can’t even make the guided tour movies. Either way, Steve Jobs would chew someone’s head off for delivering an “Incomplete” to the website.
They added three more tonight.
Yes, they are monitoring my every desire.
The release date hasn’t happened yet. No one has a watch in hand.
LOL. Apple watch? What a joke.
Are you a real person troll or a bot troll?
I’m sorry I thought this was a place to post our “opinion”. No?
Your lame comment seemed like a canned post from an automated trolling bot, that’s all. But I guess not, it came from a real person, who does the same thing as an automated trolling bot. You certainly have the right to post these things, why I don’t know.
I see my opinion doesn’t matter. Ok. Not worth talking to you because all you are going to do is attack people personally for their OPINION.
Not attacking you personally, just your banal comment. I’m guessing you go around posting comments such as: “Who Cares”, “Get a life” and use the word “Sheeple” to describe Apple fans. That’s my guess. I could be wrong.
Oh I post “who cares”? That would be more like what you post like the post you made in the article about Disney….”Apparently it’s a world of just white people”. You should really look in the mirror instead of through a window!
Ignore them. If some of the more zealot fanboys would also ignore the fagdroids they’d get bored and go away.
He can’t be real, surely? I mean, anyone who thinks it’s ridiculous to have to memorise a diagram or watch video tutorials in order to use a gadget aimed at nontechnical people, designers and posers, must be insane!
If you need this diagram you shouldn’t own any tech, watch or phone. LOL
I have memorized quite a bit of the city streets where I live. It’s just something you do if you want to get out and go somewhere. Some people stay home because going out is too hard.
Are you kidding? A 9 year old can figure out how to use this in no Time flat.
oops