Avgånär

Avgånär is a Garmin watch app for viewing nearby stops and departures at a glance. It is perfect for checking if you can stop stressing on your way to the bus – or if it’s time to start running. The base version works within Stockholm (SL), while a second version covers entire Sweden.

It’s the first personal project I’ve released officially. After not finalising several Android apps, I wanted a smaller project and to focus on MVP principles. I started from a personal problem and employed autobiographical design, along with formative feedback from users.

Overview

You can view nearby stops and add them as favorites:

See upcoming departures, filtered by transport mode:

Get deviation warnings and handle errors:

Avgånär Sweden

I decided to make another version of the app for entire Sweden. The app is open source, so the idea is to be replicable to other countries’ public transport as well.

Process

The Garmin ecosystem is pretty unstandardised, with different watches having different layouts and styles. I settled on making it standard-compatible with one version of the OS, while keeping a unique flair.

Mode selection

At one point the API was updated to require requesting one transport mode at a time. As such I had to restructure and design an interaction for this:

Insights

This seemingly simple project is not the most exciting thing ever – yet it was instructive to finally release something with all that that entails, including legal and support. My plan for now is to mostly just maintain it with support for new watches.

Related projects: Trackfield and Markana

I learned app design and development by building these Android apps. I never finished them due to a lack of MVP-strategy; lesson learnt the hard way.

Trackfield is for runs:

And Markana is for Markdown notes: