This shit is so much harder to read. I don’t understand how this is getting approved. Even driving navigation feels like a torrential horde of vomit with all the high contrast streets sliding by.
Sure, it might make for prettier screenshots, but it’s actually functionally harder to read, as the important/highlighted elements just don’t stand out as much when literally everything “stands out”. I feel like this has been a continued trend from Google Maps and this might be the final straw for me… I’ve already noticed having a harder time distinguishing turns.
I disagree. I find the stronger contrast easier to pick out while driving. I found myself squinting a lot before.
I find that the opposite. There’s more contrast on everything. Previously, contrast of the path to follow made if clear where to go. Now that doesn’t have as much contrast from the rest so it’s harder to glance and see where to go. All of the roads stand out. But I don’t care about all of the roads. I care about the ONE road I’m trying to follow and that doesn’t stand our from the rest. That’s all I’m trying to “pick out” while driving and now that is harder.
It feels like “overly” busy because literally every item on the screen is trying to pop out from the background. That’s just noise and over attention grabbing. I don’t care about the 7 streets I’m passing popping out and grabbing attention. I barely even need to know they’re there, so the low contrast made sense.
Hrm, for me it’s actually the opposite, although I only see the light mode while driving. But for that in particular, roads and ways are much much easier to make out.
I just strongly disagree with this. In light mode, roads are way more blaring. That makes them easier to see against the background. But makes it harder to see everything else. IE, if I drive to a 5 way intersection, it’s extremely difficult to tell which road is highlighted as the path for me to take. Because everything stands out, the actual DIRECTIONS don’t stand out from everything else.
I dont care about seeing roads that aren’t the ones I’m taking very well. While navigating, all I care about is where I’m going and maybe like counting how many cross roads or intersections till I turn. When I’m searching for things, I don’t care about roads, I care about seeing balloons. And as EVERYTHING has more contrast, the results/selections don’t stand out as much and it’s harder to read.
I do wonder if maybe this becomes a rural vs city sort of thing. Maybe that’s not a big problem with rural driving and fewer roads? But harder when there’s a bunch of roads in one place?
I just want to have higher information density in google maps. Having to constantly zoom in to see buildings is a pain.
It’s already an information overload. It would be nice to have more options on what information to show.
Sometimes I need to see street names and house numbers, sometimes I need to see the name of the burger place, but I don’t ever need to see the name and ratings of each and every hotel and coffee shop in a 10 km radius.
It also ought to figure this out by itself. It already knows if I’m on foot, driving or using public transport. It already knows if I’m in my local area or traveling on the opposite side of the globe. They also know if I’m using the app for navigation or just browsing the map of distant places compared to my actual location.
They have so much data but still can’t figure out to show relevant information.
Probably because all information changes I’ve notes in the last few years have nothing to do with improving information access and all to do with monetizing it.
Google used to make good software that they could monitize with ads. Now they build their apps to sell ads.
Especially since they started showing advertised businesses to me on the map. I’ve never been to a McDonald’s, Google, and I know you know this about me so stop preferentially showing them when I pan around my map!
Also please let me filter my search results. When I search “coffee shop” it’d be nice not to have to scroll past all the starbucks and gas stations to find small businesses.
Thanks I hate it.
This is too minor of a thing to really gripe about. Getting upset over this is like getting angry that Coke or Pepsi has altered the design of their logo again. It’s just… Not really a big deal.
Maybe I just hate change, but isn’t it much more difficult to differentiate between grass and water with the new colors? I find myself really preferring the old version, though I am used to it
