Last year, Google Maps on Android was revamped so that the main view displayed info using sheets, and the full app is getting this redesign.
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I have to say that the UI designers at Google are smoking crack and their designs are becoming less usable by the day.
Here’s some, on standard Android:
- Icons are now all the same shape, using similar colours, causing you to tap the wrong one more often.
- Google Home is now a confusing mixture of pop-ups, tabs, drop-downs and general weirdness, making something I use a hundred times a day (to control my house) a bad experience.
- Tap holding a message in Gmail to select it now moves the list to make space, but only in “All” view.
- Maps are taking up less and less space on the screen, making it harder and harder to see context and relationships between locations.
- Maps are now unusable in broad daylight because colour contrasts are now almost non-existent.
That’s just the tip of the iceberg. It’s an abomination and getting worse.
Abandon Google. I’ve been slowly extricating myself and it feels wonderful. Soon I will have an entirely degoogled phone.