New Devices Redesign Is A Confusing Mess

I’m not trying to be harsh… Actually no, I am trying to be harsh, because I’m fed up watching the quality of this app decline over the years. I’m going to need a product person to explain what they were smoking with the devices redesign on mobile. I have NO idea what the hell I’m looking at here. And before you tell me Sense employees are not on here, they should be.

I used my AC for three days in April… 4/21, 4/24, AND 4/25. What is the darker orange measuring? Is it comparing the usage to the same day last month? Last year? Because my AC isn’t on in the end of March/early April so I literally have no idea what this is trying to tell me. Let’s just take random data and display it in the least intuitive way possible

I literally have no idea what all the kwh adding to $114 is because those are NOT the times my AC was running.

It’s as if no one has ever heard of A11Y: Accessibility! What if someone cannot distinguish those very similar colors?

There used to be private betas and feedback requests for upcoming features. They used to listen. I already dislike last year’s redesign of the mobile app because it’s not even a real dark mode.

Seriously though remove this section from the forums if it’s not being used. Why have it at all? One update from February and the previous update was from 2023. What’s the point of a release notes section when there have not been any public facing release notes:

EDIT: I figured it out. The price is the total usage for all devices for that selected date range… The darker bars are total usage for that day for all devices. I see what they were going for, but it was not immediately clear to me.

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@portfolioso , I think we’re seeing an evolution from Sense being focused on dedicated monitor users (how they started) to a greater focus on “incidental users” who get Sense capabilities via their utility and meter, and on additional cloud apps that help utilities.

Just saw this new utility-level app being marketed in the Australia and possibly the UK.

There’s also new engineering crowd at Sense. Just saw this highlight on their new-ish Director of Engineering for Consumer products. There’s a Connect and Contact button here: