Concept: three data-history watch faces for Race (Charge / Recovery / Day)
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Hi all,
I’m a designer and a Race owner. I put together a concept for three watch faces built around one idea: showing a metric over time on the dial itself, not just its current value. Every face in the store today gives me the number now — heart rate now, steps today. None of them tell me where today sits in the week.
The three share a grid, a typeface and a single accent colour. What changes is the series drawn on the background and what the outer ring measures.
Charge — the line is training load over the last 7 days, filled dot on today. The ring fills towards the optimal load range, with a white marker on its lower bound. The orange figure is remaining resources.
Recovery — the line is HRV over the last 7 nights, with a triangle showing the deviation from your personal average. The ring carries last night’s recovery. This is the face you read in the morning, before deciding on the session.
Day — a radial comb in the upper crown gives movement hour by hour from wake-up on the left to the current hour; hours still to come stay as plain dots. The ring counts active hours, and the centre shows how long you’ve been sitting without a break.
Each one comes with an always-on mode that keeps only the time, the ring and one value.
Constraints I designed against: pure black background with no fills or gradients, time at 148 px, no text below 10 px, every text block measured against the circle’s chord so nothing runs under the progress ring, and a three-slot footer row that stays on grid whatever complications you choose. All the metrics already exist on Race, Race S, Vertical and 9 Peak Pro.
Two questions:
Is a time series on the dial background something people here would actually use, or does it read as noise on the wrist?
@pavel.samokha @Nikolai-Simonov — you’ve both published faces here. How does one get access to the watch face development toolchain? I’d like to build these properly rather than leave them as renders. -
Since you asked
I’m always puzzled why people want data on their watchface 24/7 while it’s not useful 24/7 (because it doesn’t change or is only somewhat useful 1 moment during the day, for instance to decide want kind of run to do)
My previous watch was a garmin and there are quite some garmin users who just want more data. period. There are (dataoverload) watchfaces that show things like vo2max. I asked why you would want that. The answer was because I like to look at it. Can’t argue with that.
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