VGuideAI mobile redesign mockup

Start inside the guide, not before it.

The first screen is already moving: map, route, current stop, and audio controls. Copy is kept only for state, action, and trust. Everything else should be visible through hierarchy.

Design test for every label If the route, player state, or selected stop can explain it visually, we remove the sentence. Buttons stay only when a passenger must make a clear choice.
01 Main View No intro screen
1
Union Station
LoDo
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Denver Union Station Walk
EN
...
1
Next stop

Denver Union Station

120 m · 2 min · audio ready

02 Now Playing Apple Music logic
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v
Stop 1 of 7
...
Playing now

Denver Union Station

The railway front door to the city

0:482:35
03 Read / Look Only when needed
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Denver Union Station
...
Stop 1

Union Station

Look now

Face the grand hall and notice how the station feels more like a civic living room than a transit stop. That is the point: Denver built this as a gateway.

Story

The railroads turned Denver from a frontier settlement into the hub of the Rocky Mountain West. Union Station is where that ambition became architecture.

Did you know?

The current station hall keeps the historic shell, but the neighborhood around it is modern Denver.

04 Stops Queue Up Next pattern
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Denver walk

Stops

Map
1
Denver Union Station2:35 · 120 m
Current
2
Wynkoop & LoDo2:10 · 4 min
Next
3
The Oxford Hotel1:55 · 3 min
Later
4
Dairy Block2:20 · 5 min
Later
5
Larimer Square2:45 · 6 min
Later
05 More Utility, not nav clutter
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Guide options

More

x
A
LanguageEnglish
Change
Offline guideAudio and map for this route
Download
?
Ask about this stopUse when the story raises a question
Ask
i
SourcesCredits and route notes
Open
!
FeedbackReport a wrong stop or unclear direction
Send

Screen Contract

The app should feel like one continuous guide session, not a content library. Main view is the product: a spatial player with a map underneath.

Main View Shows route, current/next stop, distance, audio readiness, and primary action.
Now Playing Large place artwork, stop title, progress, playback controls, transcript/language/continue.
Read / Look Only opens when passenger wants text, visual cue, or source-style detail.
Stops Queue Route order and progress, like Apple Music Up Next plus Apple Maps distance cues.
More Language, offline, sources, assistant, feedback. No account/admin clutter here.

Visible Text + Buttons

Kept labels: action verbs, current state, and trust/support. Removed labels: generic intro, feature explanation, and repeated teaching text.

Primary nav Listen, Map, Stops, More.
Main buttons Play stop, Stops, Recenter, Sound.
Player buttons Back 15, pause/play, forward 15, Transcript, Language, Continue.
Read buttons Play audio, Continue.
More buttons Change, Download, Ask, Open, Send, Back to guide.