User test in the USA

laem

I asked a HN user complaining about the search of OSM applications being broken to tell me what he tried.

Here's the very interesting result : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48845296

We failed on everything, yet we're so close to giving him the results he expected : the coffee.

All the issues in my comment should be resolved, but here's a simple one : we show both coffee shops on the map, but none in the search results.

1. laem

   Let's not be too harsh for ourselves : I just tried doing the same in Gmap : I open gmap, I search for "Milwaukee" and hit enter, this is the (bad) result :

   

   So i manually select Milwaukee US, search for "Valentine" and get this :

   

   I finally manually select a search entry and get a coffee :

   Search and UX are hard, even for Google.

   It gets the "coffee" search perfectly though.