“Was it like this or maybe I remember it wrong?” Don’t blame your memory, Google Maps is now available activate a general overhaul which significantly changes its interface, after being tested for a few months.
Google Maps gets a new design more modern which should be more intuitivemaking the navigation layers clear (and where we’ll come back to if we go back), with more curves and an unrecognizable shape to start a route.
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The Google Maps interface wasn’t outdated, but it was still a bit halfway between Material Design and Material You, with still a lot of right angles and not so many rounded edges because they reached other Google apps that received the Material You surgery.
Google is now widely enabling design that subtly changes certain elements of the interface and how we interact with them. The main change is that information panels are never fully maximized and They include an X button to close them.
The new design (left) and the old one (right)
Behind an information panel We will continue to see the card behind in an upper bandwhich will help us not to get lost in navigation and we will know clearly where we will return if we close it.
However The biggest change occurs when creating a routebecause the origin and destination appear floating above the map instead of being part of a large header at the top. All additional options go in a lower panel.
The result is a slightly less claustrophobic interface, with an upper part where we have the origin and destination and a lower panel where the rest of the data is located, such as the different routes and means of transport. Like the rest of the panels, it has a
It’s not all good news. On the way the gesture to hide the search bar has been lost and display the map in full screen, without any buttons or forms. the best is still there.
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