One click navigation to Saved places after starting waze
You start waze everyday and you everyday pick one of 5 routes.
But you need 3-4 clicks to do so and after every step, you have to do 3-4 quick decision and reading. It takes you attention to waaay too long.
Imagine new optional One click home screen:
- no map on home page (but yes, there are button to show map)
- precalculated routes to all of your saved places IS there
- all routes with 3 best variants, your preffered way is highlighted and Allways Shown, major issues highlighted
How it should be - sorry for not uploading picture:
1) WORK (see road details)
road 1 - 17 min. (through Main st.) (light traffic logo) - GO in 3, 2, 1..
road 2 - 27 min. (through highway) (*preffered) (accident) - GO
road 3 - 35 min. (through Jefferson st.) (hard traffic logo) - GO
2) HOME - turned off - because you are at home and waze know it. (with option to turn it on if its just GPS issue)
3) Grandma house (see road details)
road 1 - 37 min. (through Lincoln av.) (*preffered)- GO
road 2 - 41 min. (through highway) - GO
road 3 - 55 min. (through Jefferson st.) (police logo) - GO
4) GF house (see details)
road 1 - 10 min. (through Lincoln av.) (*preffered) (police) - GO
road 2 - 15 min. (through highway) (light traffic) - GO
road 3 - 25 min. (through Jefferson st.) - GO
pros:
ZERO click to got big picture
ONE click start to daily routes or even monthly routes
you can start it even if car, if you see accident or traffic. you have better info RIGHT NOW without a single click or scrolling on map, so you acn do it while driving in a second without toutching - MUCH safer
if ux ++ then much more users will come
cons:
waze will have to do very quick road calculations (which can be slower). but there should be Loading bar under every location in this case and you should click on your favourite location to load that first.
maybe there should be an condition - no load in 3 seconds -> show just map, or this load bar will just be over the map in packed version, so you will see the map and after every route is calculated, it gets bigger.
everyone sees your saved places or favourite ways. but if you dont save places like girlfriend 1 and girlfriend 2, you are supersafe :-)
if your telephone is stolen, someone will see your adresses, but it can be seen even if they are just saved.
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Els Crijns commented
I especially like the idea of prefererend routes for common destinations. There are a myriad of routes to work, but some shortcuts are not worth the 30sec you win.
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Miki kvetan commented
some quick sketch for better understanding:
https://imgur.com/a/pooE6YK