How to Avoid Information Overload

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It's a lot of information to get across visually. How do you avoid having that overload the user and having like too many options being thrown up on the screen? Yes, that's a it's really important that we take a lot of care and trying to rank the information that you might see on a page based on what we think is most important for you to see in that moment. It's about how much time and how much you want to learn and discover even the different modes of how you can get someplace driving taking the bus walking cycling.

From paper maps to smartphone apps, the way people navigate the world has changed tremendously due to the rise of the internet. Google Maps is the fourth most popular mobile app in the U.S. by unique visitors, according to Comscore. That makes it more popular than Instagram, Tiktok and Spotify or its closest competitor, Apple Maps. Christopher Phillips, who runs Google’s Geo team and oversees Google Maps, speaks with WSJ’s Danny Lewis about how his company is thinking about the role maps play in bringing more information to our fingertips.