This is really a misunderstanding of "looking nice" and usability. This app doesn't look nice, but if it was an incredibly usable app with an ugly background c

This is really a misunderstanding of "looking nice" and usability. This app doesn't look nice, but if it was an incredibly usable app with an ugly background color and ugly custom buttons, that would be somewhat understandable (I say somewhat only because Apple gives you beautiful looking graphics for free). The problem is that this design is not usable. Design isn't how something looks, it is fundamentally how it works. The developer complains that these are really hard UI problems, and while I agree that UI is always difficult, Apple has already solved most of these issues in much more intuitive ways. For example, the frequent trips section is redundant and confusing. If this app is really supposed to be "top down design" than this doesn't fit, because I've already been asked to enter mileage details and destination, but the frequent trips section already has all this information! Plus, the same screen shouldn't be used for inputting and editing this kind of information. One is something you do frequently, the other rarely -- they don't deserve the same placement in the UI. The Maps application on the phone uses bookmarks as data entry mechanisms, which is far more intuitive and lets you have a separate screen for managing them.