Navigation: bad advice
I am an old motorist, and I do not know the words of love for manufacturers of navigation programs. I have a long-held feeling that the manufacturers who make navigation software hardly ever sat behind the wheel of a car and, of course, do not enjoy the fruits of their own labor. It was for them that I wrote bad advice.
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1. Create the control that the programmer designed. Or a person who thinks like a programmer. For him, this is obvious, and the rest will get used.
2. The main thing is translucent buttons. It is fashionable and cool. The driver must peer into the map. Why draw a normal font distance, the next turn or increase the map? Better make them translucent!
3. Autoscale is cool. Indeed, if you drive 63 km per hour, this is a crazy speed, literally a highway. In no case do not provide for autosizing to turn off automatically in the city. Who needs to turn this off in the menu, something. Racing harms your health, the optimal speed is a little more than 30 km / hour.
4. When planning a map, discard permanent traffic jams. Building a route should be extremely convenient for the computer, not for the driver. For example, in Petersburg it is best to build a route along Nevsky or Sadovaya Street. Embankments must be ignored!
5. Burn in hell to the one who binds the card to the time of movement of the driver. It is very difficult, and uncomfortable. You need to know the current traffic jams - turn on the mobile Internet, it is not so expensive!
6. It is necessary to voice everything. Gas stations, attractions, school areas, traffic police posts, shops. Indeed, who does not need this information, turn them off on their own, a little digging in the menu.
7. The designer perfectly knows the color palette. For example, a route should be ticked, or orange on a background of yellow. So not annoying and fun.
8. Why include unnecessary route alerts? For example, for 300 meters, 500 or 50? Simply select one of the alerts. Either for 300, or for 500, or for 50!
9. Voice warning “Battery low” is best repeated every 40 seconds. Either get bored and turn off the navigator, or turn on charging. The driver is an idiot, it is necessary to remind all the time.
10. Absolutely correct message - "Turn right, then turn right." It is very convenient for the driver. Like the messages, “Keep left, keep 400 meters to the right”. Or display a graphical rotation in the corner of a 4 inch screen. Display graphics in full screen is not necessary, because the driver will be annoyed. Still, at the moment he does not see the rest of the route!
11. And the last. Traffic jams need to be drawn in red lines throughout the current map. And be sure to specify the flow rate. So that the scarlet card turned out. To recommend a flashing line of green color route detour traffic jams - this is too much, especially in advance.
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1. Create the control that the programmer designed. Or a person who thinks like a programmer. For him, this is obvious, and the rest will get used.
2. The main thing is translucent buttons. It is fashionable and cool. The driver must peer into the map. Why draw a normal font distance, the next turn or increase the map? Better make them translucent!
3. Autoscale is cool. Indeed, if you drive 63 km per hour, this is a crazy speed, literally a highway. In no case do not provide for autosizing to turn off automatically in the city. Who needs to turn this off in the menu, something. Racing harms your health, the optimal speed is a little more than 30 km / hour.
4. When planning a map, discard permanent traffic jams. Building a route should be extremely convenient for the computer, not for the driver. For example, in Petersburg it is best to build a route along Nevsky or Sadovaya Street. Embankments must be ignored!
5. Burn in hell to the one who binds the card to the time of movement of the driver. It is very difficult, and uncomfortable. You need to know the current traffic jams - turn on the mobile Internet, it is not so expensive!
6. It is necessary to voice everything. Gas stations, attractions, school areas, traffic police posts, shops. Indeed, who does not need this information, turn them off on their own, a little digging in the menu.
7. The designer perfectly knows the color palette. For example, a route should be ticked, or orange on a background of yellow. So not annoying and fun.
8. Why include unnecessary route alerts? For example, for 300 meters, 500 or 50? Simply select one of the alerts. Either for 300, or for 500, or for 50!
9. Voice warning “Battery low” is best repeated every 40 seconds. Either get bored and turn off the navigator, or turn on charging. The driver is an idiot, it is necessary to remind all the time.
10. Absolutely correct message - "Turn right, then turn right." It is very convenient for the driver. Like the messages, “Keep left, keep 400 meters to the right”. Or display a graphical rotation in the corner of a 4 inch screen. Display graphics in full screen is not necessary, because the driver will be annoyed. Still, at the moment he does not see the rest of the route!
11. And the last. Traffic jams need to be drawn in red lines throughout the current map. And be sure to specify the flow rate. So that the scarlet card turned out. To recommend a flashing line of green color route detour traffic jams - this is too much, especially in advance.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/122115/
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