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How To Create Watch Faces Using The Watch Face Studio

2024-03-08T12:10:24+05:30

‘Don’t just wear a smartwatch – own it.’

This is one of the mantras that we swear by, boAtheads! Which is why we never shy away from boosting our smartwatches with features that enable you to flaunt your style, your way. How? The power of unprecedented personalization, delivered via our exclusive Watch Face Studio!

Yes, if you want to customize your boAt smartwatch with your own watch faces, you can now use the Watch Face Studio feature that is available on Crest+ OS smartwatches supported via boAt Crest App. After all, the biggest X-factor of stylish watches for men and stylish watches for women is how they let you take personalisation to the next level.

With boAt’s Watch Face Studio, you can create your own watch face from scratch by selecting an image of your choice, time in analogue or digital style, the perfect colour to match your wardrobe or personality, fonts that catch the eye, and the features you would like to display as per your priority. What’s more, you can also choose from some stunning premade watch faces! All you need to do is launch the boAt Crest app on your smartphone, go to the Watch Face Studio feature, and let your imagination run wild! Here’s a quick video explainer:

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The Power of Personalisation: Custom Watch Faces in Wearables

2023-09-23T17:00:00+05:30

We live in a world where your wristwatch can become an extension of your personality. With the advent of custom watch faces and the rise of innovative watch face designer tools, the wearables industry is advancing rapidly.

That said, even the traditional watch face has evolved from providing basic functions to a customisable canvas of options. Understanding the changing necessities of users, boAt smartwatches elevate this. With a few taps and swipes, you can choose from a wide range of elements to create a watch face that is as unique and functional as you need it to be.

This is where boAt comes in. Our custom watch faces are a gateway to a world of possibilities. How, you may be wondering? Read on…

What is a Custom Watch Face?

A custom watch face refers to a personalised design or layout that can be added to the display of a smartwatch. You can optimise your device by selecting a variety of functions and visuals to appear on the screen.
To create a custom watch face, you can use a watch face designer tool that's built into boAt Crest App. It provides a user-friendly interface that allows you to customise various elements of the watch face, such as the background, colours, fonts, and also allows you to add widgets.

Advantages of Custom Watch Faces

Information Accessibility

A watch face that you designed helps you prioritise the information that matters most to you, without having to navigate through the menus. This allows for quick and convenient access to relevant data, such as calories burnt, step count etc.

Personalisation

As you create your own watch face with your own sense of design, it takes personalization and self-expression to the next level. You can express your individuality and style by creating a unique design that is an extension of your personality.

Aesthetics

With the amount of flexibility that you get with cusomised watch faces, you can move beyond the basic watch faces and choose from a plethora of cloud watch faces and if that is not enough, you can make your own with DIY Watch face Studio (our watch face designer tool) to match your sense of style.

Functionality

When you make your own watch face, you can choose what information you wish to see in the home screen for easy access. This makes it easier to access and get insights like step count, calories burnt by just glancing at the home screen of your smart watch.

Adaptability

With customized watch faces, the possibilities become limitless. You can make anything you want with anything you can possibly think of. This gives you limitless choices with the option of effortlessly switching between different styles and themes according to your outfit, which means unlimited adaptability.

Uniqueness

Since you create your own watch faces, every design that you’ll create on the watch face designer tool will be unique be truly you. And with that, you can fashion your uniqueness on your smartwatch.

Impact on the Wearable Industry

Enhanced User Experience

Customisation, has taken user experience to the next level. Users can customise their watch faces to display the information and functionalities that are relevant to them. So when they wish to access information that they need the most, they can simply glance at the screen and get it.

User Empowerment

With the choice of what your watch face will be displaying, it gives users control over their smartwatches. The user can now decide what their custom watch faces will show and how it will look and are not just limited to the options of preset watch faces. This in a way gives user the power to fashion themselves the way they like by empowering them with unlimited choices.

Conclusion

Personalisation allows freedom of expression, and hence custom watch faces are getting popular in the wearables industry. Our smartwatches not only come with multiple functions and custom watch faces but are also extremely durable for the ultimate user experience. So, our boAtheads don’t have to choose between fashion and usability.
As technology advances, we can expect increasing potential and functionality to emerge, making personalised timekeeping an integral part of our daily lives.]]>

How Custom Watch Faces Enhance Your Daily Routine

2023-09-22T10:00:00+05:30

Smartwatches have certainly made our everyday lives easier and more efficient. But it is not limited to that, the watch faces in your smartwatch can help it become an extension of your personal style while enhancing your day-to-day activities. With the ability to customise the design of the watch face, you can create trendy watch face design that reflects your unique personality while optimising its functionality to suit your needs.

Crafting a watch face for optimum benefits isn’t tough. You just have to use the right widgets and features correctly. You just need to understand and evaluate your everyday activities and customise the widgets, features, and themes of the smartwatch accordingly.

Here are a few customising ideas that would help you create the right watch face for boAt smart watch seamlessly.

For The Office Goer

Incorporating the right features and widgets would enhance productivity and connectivity in your workplace. Customise notifications and prioritise alerts from essential apps or contacts. Display upcoming calendar events and reminders on your watch face, ensuring you stay organised and never miss an important meeting. You can also change the design of your dial into a minimal or sleek analogue for a professional setting.

For the Fitness Lovers

Optimise your workout routines and track your progress with built-in step counters on your boAt smartwatch. Set your watch faces with dedicated quick access to fitness widgets like steps covered in a day or calories burnt. Additionally, stopwatches and timers allow you to read and understand your progress.

For the Health Conscious

Allow your watch face to display data from the heart monitor, oxygen meter, and sleep tracker to get insights into your health and body patterns. In addition to that, you can also set notification alerts and reminders for healthier habits. This would send you reminders to drink water, take a walk, and more to help you break your sedentary lifestyle.
Your boAt smartwatch can also send you reminders and information about your menstrual cycles and stress levels. A Quick flash of the data on your watch nudges you into making informed and quick decisions about yourself and your lifestyle.

For The Fashionistas

With boAt smartwatches, you customise and personalise the watch face to match your style, mood, or occasion so you can match the trends of watch faces in 2023. You can find trendy watch face designs pre-loaded on your device or customise them using the various widgets, graphics, and fonts available. Find the right combination of colours and patterns to match your style and make your own trendy watch face design.

For Everyday Use

Watch faces in 2023 are designed to handle the complex stuff for you. Using simple widgets for weather updates and alarms can keep you prepared for the day. One can keep the weather updates widget on the trendy watch face design that you made, and it will give real-time updates and information on the homescreen of your smart watch.

Once you have customised your watch face for boat smartwatch, you can save it on your boAt device. This would help you switch through different watch faces throughout the day according to your needs and activities. You can change the look of the widgets so that you don’t only get the utility of the features, but your smartwatches also match your style. It only takes certain tweaks and a little creativity to make your boAt smartwatch truly your own.]]>

Customising Your Smartwatch For Your Every Requirement

2023-09-21T17:00:00+05:30

smartwatch faces, the device doubles up as a fitness tracker; health monitor; phone to make and receive calls; device to check and reply to messages and even emails; alarm clock, stopwatch, an timer; and even a GPS-enabled mini-map for finding your way around.
The list goes on and certainly makes the device seem like the ultimate must-have tech accessory. Many smartwatches, like those offered by boAt, also offer the facility of customising the watch face to add extra layers of versatility, allowing you to create your own style to match your persona, mood or need. Let’s talk about that some more.

What Are Custom Smartwatch Faces?

The concept of custom watch faces is quite simple – you can change the look of your smartwatch by changing the dial, i.e., the watch face background. Think of it like changing the wallpaper of your smartphone. But when you choose boAt, there’s more; besides changing the watch face wallpaper you can set a preferred colour palette, add functional or informative widgets and more.

Why it’s the Ultimate Tech Accessory?

Smartwatches by boAt go the extra mile when it comes to customisation by providing some of the best watch faces that you can personalise, basis your wants or needs. These offer multiple benefits in various scenarios.

Matching Your Watch Face To Your Fashion Sense

Ethnic, western, Indo-western, traditional, whatever your wardrobe choice, your boAt smartwatch can match it. Right from the colour patterns of the watch face background to go with your mood and your outfit, along with a quick change of the strap to bring it all together, a boAt smartwatch can add that necessary touch of glam to your look. Choose from prints, shapes, a wide colour palette, and even funky smartwatch faces to create the perfect look that matches your taste, outfit, and occasion.

Monitoring Your Well-being

Whether you’re consuming enough water or walking enough every day, the smartwatch helps you keep away from slipping into a sedentary lifestyle. This is where your boAt smartwatch can lend a helping hand. Aside from using the stand-alone features, by customising your current watch face to include various tracking widgets like step counts, calorie tracker, heart rate, etc., it’s just a matter of raising your hand to get a readout of your current progress. Not only does the device track your sleep cycles and provides updates on your REM and deep sleep, but it also monitors your stress levels and checks blood oxygen.

Being Your Workout Buddy

The activity tracker on your boAt smartwatch makes the perfect gym buddy. It has several sports modes for a variety of activities. Every workout, from walking and running to climbing, lifting weights, cycling, etc., can be tracked. All you got to do is gear up with your watch and go work out. You can also take your boAt smartwatch for a swim and monitor your laps. Set up a smartwatch face with sports widgets to monitor your workout, and you’re ready to start.

Keeping Work On Track

A smartwatch can make your work-life easier with alerts, notifications, and meeting/event reminders right on your wrist. You can set reminders to pop up on your smartphone watch face, and take or hang up on calls without ever looking at your phone. Choose a watch face that lets messages like emails, WhatsApp or social media messages, or even missed call alerts be highlighted, and you’ll always be on top of things.

Being Your Travel Buddy

A smartwatch can come in very handy while travelling. Set up a dual dial as your smartwatch watch face, so you’ll always know the time back home and where you are. Some smartwatches also feature built-in GPS modules and mapping software that allows you to find your way around a place without using your phone.

Updating Your Smartwatch Face – The Process

With Watches powered by Crest+ OS, updating and customising your boAt smartwatch face is simple. You’ll need to download the boat Crest App on your smartphone, connect your smartwatch through Bluetooth and begin.

The app has a ‘Create Watch Face’ function under ‘Device Features.’ Click on it and check out the easy-to-follow tutorial. Start creating your personalised smartwatch face by choosing a background, colours, widgets, and where you wish to place them.

Widgets can be a handy way to personalise your watch’s home screen with readouts that you need. There are quite a few options to choose from, including time (digital or the analogue display format), date, heart rate, steps taken, distance covered, calories spent, and battery level.

Depending on how you use your boAt smartwatch, you can choose the widgets and even edit them to an extent.

It’s possible to design different watch faces for different looks, occasions, and outfits, situations or just pick some of the best watch faces from the extensive list of existing designs. Let your creativity run wild, save each creation under the ‘My Watch Faces’ option so you can use them whenever you like. Whatever your mood, you’ll have a watch face to go with it.

The Final Word

The boAt smartwatch is a versatile piece of technology that makes life easier and complements “You”. Whether you’re dressing up for the office, relaxing at home, going out for a party, heading to the great outdoors or your nearest gym, your boAt smartwatch is more than a trendy accessory, it can be your best friend thanks to its many features and handy smartwatch faces.]]>