dashorst
Dr. Drang☃️ Another place where Apple has forgotten good UI design principles.
https://leancrew.com/all-this/2026/01/choosing-a-driving-route-in-carplay/
https://leancrew.com/all-this/2026/01/choosing-a-driving-route-in-carplay/
jasonclarke@drdrang I’m not in the car at the moment, but I’ve noticed my CarPlay sometimes will *only* accept a tap on the text (taps on the coloured button inside the bigger button are ignored). Infuriating!
Leon Cowle@drdrang As an aside, and not at all contradicting the message of your post (which I completely agree with!), but in case you didn't know: if you use Siri in CarPlay to bring up the directions, and you happen to be happy with the result & default route it picked, just do nothing. It'll activate itself after a few seconds.
@leoncowle Yes, but when my first turn is directly in front of me, I don’t want to wait those few seconds.
Jon Schwenn@leoncowle @drdrang my wife uses that to “go home” and 5% of the time it’ll automatically direct her to a street with the same name in a town 10 miles away. And she doesn’t realize it sometimes until it’s directed her well off the path home.
Siri is not a trustworthy actor.
Conlan Spangler@drdrang I don’t have CarPlay, but the way it works in Maps.app on iPhone, tapping the other route “button” highlights the blue route line on the map (and/or shows details of the route), while “go” begins navigation. I’m not saying it’s good UX, but—if it’s the same in CarPlay—I think that’s the intended distinction.
Dayton Lowell
Nigel Wadsworth 🇦🇺@drdrang First time I saw this in mine, I honestly thought the grey one for some reason wasn't tappable or available.
Zooming along at speed (potentially) you want a nice juicy big target, not a teeny GO button.
toniwonkanobi2@drdrang YES! Why is the default option the least colorful, indicating that it's not actually default selected? Sigh.
Wolfgang Müller (DE:er/EN:he)@drdrang I thought this was for nudging me in some direction. But mainly it nudges me towards another map app.
Jimmy@drdrang None of this is good UI, but technically the black on grey button is “more readable” than the white on green, based on contrast ratio and accessibility scores.
@jimmylittle The word GO is certainly more readable in black-on-gray, but if your eye isn’t drawn to the bright green, you’re not hooked up right.
ChancerubbageWondering how the color blind might perceive that situation.
Do you remember OS settings having a toggle for color blindness?
Carsten@drdrang Honestly this ios26 is making me hate apple a lot. There are so many ugly non user friendly design decisions. So many strange circle overlays and ui element delays that I wish I never upgraded. Also macOS. You want clean interfaces and nothing the wobbles around when you hover over it. We are not in a kids playground.
FreediverX@drdrang
Ugly and dysfunctional define Apple software in the post-Jobs era.
Ugly and dysfunctional define Apple software in the post-Jobs era.
Colin@drdrang this has been frustrating. I kept going “back” or canceling a selection and getting more and more confused/irritated before I realized now the selection looks like it’s not the selection 🙄
macfixer
S★m V★rm★
not that coachmike@drdrang @joesteel This is one of those that makes me irrationally angry. I was always taught green means go. And gray means inactive. But now apparently grey means “Go”?! Why?
And then yes - having to hit the tiny box that says go, instead of the intuitive thing of just the big “highlighted” box… just mind-boggingly stupid.
It honestly feels like Alan Dye was just trolling all of us, knowing he was on his way out the door.