<story><title>Citymapper is what happens when you understand user experience</title><url>https://medium.com/@zmh/bye-google-maps-ea3ea10f84dc</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>buro9</author><text>Google Maps is for car drivers.&lt;p&gt;CityMapper is for multi-transportation within a few metropolis.&lt;p&gt;The UX of Google maps for routing when driving is incredible and beats everyone: Apple, TomTom, Garmin... everyone. Down to showing labels on side streets &amp;quot;3 minutes slower&amp;quot; allowing you to evaluate every decision you could make when faced with traffic.&lt;p&gt;But... for public transport, or mixed transport solutions like crossing a city when so many external factors are at play... CityMapper wins.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s not an either&amp;#x2F;or, and it&amp;#x27;s not that Google Maps don&amp;#x27;t understand UX. Google Maps just has a different focus... the car.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cbsmith</author><text>Came here to say this. Saying someone doesn&amp;#x27;t understand UX, when in fact they just have a different user context, suggests the one pointing fingers doesn&amp;#x27;t understand UX.</text></comment>
<story><title>Citymapper is what happens when you understand user experience</title><url>https://medium.com/@zmh/bye-google-maps-ea3ea10f84dc</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>buro9</author><text>Google Maps is for car drivers.&lt;p&gt;CityMapper is for multi-transportation within a few metropolis.&lt;p&gt;The UX of Google maps for routing when driving is incredible and beats everyone: Apple, TomTom, Garmin... everyone. Down to showing labels on side streets &amp;quot;3 minutes slower&amp;quot; allowing you to evaluate every decision you could make when faced with traffic.&lt;p&gt;But... for public transport, or mixed transport solutions like crossing a city when so many external factors are at play... CityMapper wins.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s not an either&amp;#x2F;or, and it&amp;#x27;s not that Google Maps don&amp;#x27;t understand UX. Google Maps just has a different focus... the car.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>aembleton</author><text>You should try Waze.  That also has an excellent car driver focused UI.  Now, bought by Google.</text></comment>