Writing from the team building U-tour: how a running tour guide reads direction, paces its stories, and decides what to say next.
Subscribe with RSSA phone in a pocket knows which way the phone is facing. It does not know which way you are going. Here is how U-tour works out direction, and why the compass is the fallback rather than the source.
3 min readRead the post →A fixed trigger radius is tuned for one speed and wrong at every other. U-tour measures the lookahead in seconds instead, so the story finishes as the landmark arrives whether you are walking or sprinting.
2 min readRead the post →Over the life of U-tour the landmark queue picked up four clever ways to choose what to narrate next. Each produced the same complaint. The queue is now ordered by distance and not much else.
3 min readRead the post →U-tour is heading to TestFlight. Bring a running route and a pair of headphones.
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