Suggestions to Improve Waze UX/UI on Carplay
Two things I've noticed are causing issues (for me, personally at least) when using Waze for CarPlay.
1) I have to continually enter the zoom menu to zoom back down to the right distance...not ALL the time, but enough that I think it's probably a bug, and just wanted to mention it.
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2) The Notification/alert system is fundamentally broken IMO, because it essentially hijacks the navigation screen. It removes the arrival time, time remaining in your trip, and the distance you have left in your trip. These are details that I personally don't want to disappear for an alert, especially since I'm getting alerts CONSTANTLY throughout every trip. However, I have thought of a way to combine the alert WITH all of that information, while also keeping the size down and still allowing you to dismiss it easily.
Whenever an alert comes up, the card with your arrival/minutes/distance pushes up, and shows the alert beneath it along with the "NOT THERE" and "THANKS" buttons at the bottom side by side. Success! Now you can show both while also maintaining minimal screen coverage, and keeping the original element width and height as well! See Imgur link for my photoshop mockup! Thanks for reading.
Jon
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Lillie Colbert commented
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I completely agree that alerts taking over the screen disrupts the flow, particularly when you depend on distance and ETA when driving. Your suggestion to place the alert beneath the primary information card seems much more logical and unobtrusive.
In fact, it makes me think of how certain contemporary editing programs manage overlays and user interface components more fluidly. I recently came onto https://skylum.com/blog/get-results-with-luminar-neo-generative-ai-tools, which demonstrates how AI can dynamically modify layouts rather than only covering content that already exists. Here, a similar idea may allow notifications to show without obscuring crucial navigational information.
Such minor UX adjustments can have a significant impact, particularly in applications that users rely on on a daily basis.