# Desktop UI improvement suggestion: Touch screens and Fat Fingers **URL:** \ **Category:** TrainerRoad Software\ **Tags:** feature-request, windows-app, mac-app\ **Created:** [May 11, 2020, 8:32pm UTC](https://www.trainerroad.com/forum/t/desktop-ui-improvement-suggestion-touch-screens-and-fat-fingers/35751 "2020-05-11T20:32:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![iflya](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/trainerroad/forum/user_avatar/www.trainerroad.com/iflya/32/39906_2.png) [@iflya](https://www.trainerroad.com/forum/u/iflya)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2020, 8:32pm UTC](https://www.trainerroad.com/forum/t/desktop-ui-improvement-suggestion-touch-screens-and-fat-fingers/35751/1 "2020-05-11T20:32:06Z")
Hi Team Having got myself a spangly new laptop with a touchy-feely display, it makes the use of TrainerRoad a dream not having to use a mouse mid-workout. However, whilst using the touch screen, I’ve encountered a couple of UI improvements that could be made to the Desktop app to make the touch-screen experience better. The two UI features are the buttons for changing the workout intensity and showing / hiding the stats in a workout: it is quite the challenge to get the finger accurately aimed and fired at the small arrow buttons buttons whilst pushing out 260 watts! Until then I will use it as a new type of hand-eye co-ordination training … ! Thank you and keep up the good work 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Bryce](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/trainerroad/forum/user_avatar/www.trainerroad.com/bryce/32/72_2.png) [@Bryce](https://www.trainerroad.com/forum/u/Bryce)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2020, 10:30pm UTC](https://www.trainerroad.com/forum/t/desktop-ui-improvement-suggestion-touch-screens-and-fat-fingers/35751/2 "2020-05-11T22:30:14Z")
> [@iflya](#): > > The two UI features are the buttons for changing the workout intensity and showing / hiding the stats in a workout: it is quite the challenge to get the finger accurately aimed and fired at the small arrow buttons buttons whilst pushing out 260 watts! Thanks for the feedback, I will pass this onto the team for consideration 🙂 One thing I’d like to mention is that you can adjust the intensity using the up and down arrows on your keyboard if that is easier than tapping the touchscreen 👍 . You can learn about more keyboard shortcuts here in this Help Center article: > **[TrainerRoad Keyboard Shortcuts](https://support.trainerroad.com/hc/en-us/articles/202806120-TrainerRoad-Keyboard-Shortcuts)** > > TrainerRoad offers handy keyboard shortcuts for some of the most common commands you'll use during a workout. > Workout Shortcuts > Use these keyboard shortcuts during a workout to adjust intensity, to... Cheers! ---
**Author:** ![enki42](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/trainerroad/forum/user_avatar/www.trainerroad.com/enki42/32/68042_2.png) [@enki42](https://www.trainerroad.com/forum/u/enki42)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2020, 11:22pm UTC](https://www.trainerroad.com/forum/t/desktop-ui-improvement-suggestion-touch-screens-and-fat-fingers/35751/3 "2020-05-11T23:22:35Z")
I think one easy fix is the expand the clickable area of the buttons ![Intensity.click,area](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/trainerroad/original/3X/0/e/0e3e1a5ae0ac3921e273a0854380be5879b8fef8.png) Currently, the blue area is the clickable area while the red area should be clickable but outside the blue box does nothing if clicked ---
**Author:** ![enki42](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/trainerroad/forum/user_avatar/www.trainerroad.com/enki42/32/68042_2.png) [@enki42](https://www.trainerroad.com/forum/u/enki42)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2020, 11:52pm UTC](https://www.trainerroad.com/forum/t/desktop-ui-improvement-suggestion-touch-screens-and-fat-fingers/35751/4 "2020-05-11T23:52:26Z")
If you’re doing what I think you’re doing and \< and \> are just small clickable text lables with \< and \> just increase the size of the font. Ok, not the best solution cause the clickable area isn’t as big as it should be, but there is lots of room to enlarge the arrows without it overlapping anything else. So very easy fix. Or put two panals behind that set of controls where a click event does the same as a click event on the arrows. Sorry, I do c# development and miss getting to do winforms though guessing that is xaml but same idea works there too. ---
**Author:** ![iflya](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/trainerroad/forum/user_avatar/www.trainerroad.com/iflya/32/39906_2.png) [@iflya](https://www.trainerroad.com/forum/u/iflya)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2020, 7:18am UTC](https://www.trainerroad.com/forum/t/desktop-ui-improvement-suggestion-touch-screens-and-fat-fingers/35751/5 "2020-05-12T07:18:37Z")
Thanks for the info Bryce, I’ll look them up. However, the new spangly laptop is a convertible … so no keyboard (which prevent all sorts of mess getting in the keyboard 😃 ![sans keyboard](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/trainerroad/original/3X/5/5/558c08ea785f68e4be72e71a3d4852bd71dbf327.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![iflya](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/trainerroad/forum/user_avatar/www.trainerroad.com/iflya/32/39906_2.png) [@iflya](https://www.trainerroad.com/forum/u/iflya)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2020, 6:57am UTC](https://www.trainerroad.com/forum/t/desktop-ui-improvement-suggestion-touch-screens-and-fat-fingers/35751/6 "2020-05-15T06:57:34Z")
The upgrade looks great and works a treat! Thank you 😃