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[Joerg Berroth <joergberroth@xxxxxx>]

Ha! alright, just read it on the phone and decided to re-pick my
keyboard to answer instead of going to sleep.
Now you are opening something I first wanted to keep calm about as we
started to redesign everything. I just wanted to see where all this
navigation goes, without starting to raise hands.

To say it straight forward: it is right!

First of all, how I tried to get something positive out of the page
navigation:
I saw it as an alternative complete "go through" all the features unav
provides, knowing that every advanced user will use it quite rarely,
maybe it might help somebody.....

But with every new page, it got even more difficult to navigate back to
the map as we decided to have a straight hierarchy to step through the
pages.

Yes, let's remove them!
And to be even more aggressive: Do we then need the route page at all?
We could just define them all as header actions!

And one more thing (answering your last mail,too [I never use welcome
wizards by the way - the more intuitive the software guides me to my
goal, the more i like it -, but I think most of the people like the use
and fill of this user interaction, so great work!]):

If we remove the "navigation page" we have the search function in the
header.

And for the search page in particular:
I would like to get the actions performed with least clicks, meaning
that I don't like to step into the search page and then have to trigger
another search button to be able to search.
The search page should always start in the search state. It might be ok
to cancel it than, 99% of the time I want to search.
Suggestion: start in search state, show the search history.
On cancel-click the keyboard will disappear and the complete search
history is visible. I would like that approach very much.

Best regards Joerg


Am 2016-04-14 um 23:19 schrieb Nekhelesh Ramananthan:
> Hello,
> 
> Let me start of this email with a clear warning .. this is only a
> discussion and I would really like to hear some healthy exchanges of
> reasons and ideas take place.
> 
> I have had 3 users tell me that the "Nearby" and "Share" menu items we
> show in the Route Page to be useless and rather duplicated for no
> reason. To be honest, I share that opinion. Let me present my reasons
> below, and then I would like to hear your use-cases for those 2 menu
> options. How do you guys use them? Do you even use them? 
> 
> 1. NearBy (Current Position, From Map, Destination)
> 
> NearBy feature is extremely powerful and I love that feature! However I
> always access it from the POI Popup when I click on a location in the
> map. I have *never* gone to the nearby menu to search for nearby
> places.  The best part is that you can practically click on *any point*
> which includes your current location, any map position and destination
> and quickly see the nearby POIs. So why do we need the NearBy menu option? 
> 
> Check out this screenshot http://imgur.com/vpRGCh3 .. Using the map
> method, you can find all near by places in 2 steps.
> 
> Using the nearby menu method, you take 4 steps http://imgur.com/cIkuAqr
> .. No one uses this method. If they do, then they are making a mistake!
> 
> 2. Share (current Position, From Map, Destination)
> 
> This menu has the same drawbacks as the nearby menu. You can share
> any/all position straight from the popup in the map. Why do we really
> need this menu item?
> 
> I encourage both of you to really think into this discussion. Please.
> Give me *one* good reason how the menu items are useful/efficient ?
> 
> My recommendation is to remove those 2 menu options. Users can perform
> their functions straight from the popup.
> 
> Cheers,
> Nekhelesh
> 
> 
>