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Trips is a Google Maps concept reimagining trip planning with the help of Ask Maps, inspired by the original Google Trips app launched in 2016.
Build your trip
People often star places before a vacation. One tap turns the stars into a plan.
Invite friends
Share a link. Whoever joins sees the plan update as it changes.
Ask, or add any place
Ask Maps about a place, or just add it. Add to trip sits next to Directions, and Maps picks the slot that fits the route.
Trip mode
Maps knows when you've landed, and it's ready to help you start your trip.
Sidequests
Walk off the path and Maps asks: a sidequest, or part of the plan?
Meet at
Friends split off. Maps finds a place that suits everyone.
Share your trip
Planned and found, kept apart. Share a card drawn from the real route, if you want.
Ideas, not screens
Six ideas instead of thirteen screens, reusable across Google.
Place a result into a plan by time and route, not a form.
Booked or to book, right where the plan is.
An alternative offered as an option, never a correction.
Solid blue for chosen, light dotted green for found.
Proposals and splits read at a glance.
Explore becomes Trip, only on the trip's dates, with a one-tap exit.
Two colours
Solid for planned, dotted for found.
Conclusions
Mostly what Maps already has, connected. Places are real; ratings and times are illustrative.