Re: Google Maps navigation: I (kinda) agree with JC Dill
- From: JC Dill <jcdill.lists@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2011 22:42:40 -0800
On 11/01/11 5:25 AM, Justin wrote:
Steve Sobol wrote on [Mon, 10 Jan 2011 22:20:48 -0800]:I don't completely agree with her, but I do think it takes way too many
steps to get to the GPS navigation.
There are so many ways to get to it, though.
Any app with an address you click it and with seconds you can be driving
there, for example
First you click on the address to load it in the Maps app (NOT the Navigation app). Then you press/hold on the address in the Maps app to bring up a menu of options for that location, including Map (return to the Maps app), Directions, Phone, Street View. To Navigate, select the right arrow icon, then it asks if you want directions or navigation. THEN it finally will launch the Navigation app, determine your current location, calculate a route to the destination, and navigate you to the destination. It's too many clicks, and too much waiting (because it's stupid and isn't looking ahead and doing the locating and calculating before you click on the icons). It's a menu designed by an engineer, not a UI designer. (Again, I will refer interested readers to the book The Inmates Are Running The Asylum.)
jc
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