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Less a criticism of the map itself and more of the product, Google Maps overall keeps getting less and less usable. On iOS it’s possible to tap down into sever
by awongh 3y ago
Less a criticism of the map itself and more of the product, Google Maps overall keeps getting less and less usable.
On iOS it’s possible to tap down into several layers of menus and options to where it becomes impossible to get back out. (For example restaurant -> suggested places -> restaurant -> review) From the lack of well designed navigation it’s clear that the app is a messy collection of UXs thrown on top
of each other.
Don’t even get me started on the desktop browser UI where there seem to be competing google place and google map place products.
- dkjaudyeqooe 3y agoOr there's the zooming. It's always zooming in or out in a really inconvenient way. The worst is when you search, they zoom you out 10x, just so they can show you more results, but I don't want results from 100's of kms away. Here's an idea: don't zoom! Us users are grown up enough to zoom for ourselves.
- korm 3y agoSearch: "pizza", filters: 4.5+ star rating. Result: Zoom out, show 10 places with ratings starting from 1.5, among them a nail shop and a government building. If I'm lucky, it will also show the 4.7 star pizza place 2 blocks away, for which I needed directions.
- dkjaudyeqooe 3y agoFunny thing is, sometimes Maps will zoom right in. The classic is when I'm looking for something obscure near my island off the Croatian coast, and it'll zoom right in to a match... in suburban Bratislava. It's almost like it's hoping I won't notice where it's gone.
- mechhacker 3y agoThey keep breaking zoom too. The "enhancements" are reminding me of when Evernote went from their original UI to a new one, making everything take at least 3-5x more effort/tapping/clicking and I just gave up on it entirely.
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