Core promise
Route guidance that respects your pace, reduces overload, and keeps important context close at hand.
Caminhos
Navigation with a calmer voice.
A route companion for blind and low-vision travellers, designed around trust, pacing, and environmental awareness — guidance that feels supportive instead of relentless.
The concept
Conventional navigation optimises for information density. Caminhos optimises for confidence: fewer prompts, better timed, with the context that actually matters at a junction.
Who it's for
People who want stronger orientation during planned travel, with a tone that builds confidence rather than anxiety.
Status
Product concept in active design.
Key features
What it does.
Features
- Accessible route previews with concise, scannable summaries.
- Step-by-step spoken guidance timed to walking pace.
- Hazard and transition awareness at the moments that matter.
- Quiet mode for low-frequency prompting on familiar routes.
Design principle
Silence is a feature.
A navigation app that talks constantly trains you to tune it out. Caminhos spends its attention budget carefully so that when it does speak, you listen.