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Ever wondered why car ergonomics have gone down the drain as touch screens repl… | |
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@CoolSWEng hahaha the gem in the alt text from ft dot com. Ft can get fucked. | |
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@CoolSWEng I’m inclined to believe this is almost certainly not the reason.Fo… | |
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@paddyduke @CoolSWEng To me it sounds crushingly plausible that a car company c… | |
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@rastilin @CoolSWEng Most of the designers I have worked with were not the targ… | |
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@paddyduke @rastilin @CoolSWEng I work in publishing and we have a fairly compl… | |
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@paddyduke @CoolSWEng @maccruiskeen Is it really not desirable for the designer… | |
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@rastilin That’s a straw man. The designer should understand the use cases of… | |
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@paddyduke It's an appeal to authority to say that because the theory says … | |
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@rastilin @paddyduke It could also be that as designers, they just aren't v… | |
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@CoolSWEng Give me physical buttons or give me death! This problem is everywher… | |
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@paddyduke @CoolSWEng > You don’t have to be a pilot to design an aeroplan… | |
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@datenwolf @CoolSWEng You need a pilot (preferably multiple pilots) involved. B… | |
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@CoolSWEng Okay, so they KNOW, that it is a problem to produce a "2-tonne … | |
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@CoolSWEng Agreed.https://www.theverge.com/2019/8/11/20800111/us-navy-uss-john-… | |
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@CoolSWEng When we were “shopping around” for our first EV in 2022, I brief… | |
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@CoolSWEng I think the primary reason for modern cars lacking physical controls… | |
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@CoolSWEng there’s that, but also cost. Much cheaper to have a screen than al… | |
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@CoolSWEng Is it just the touchscreens, or more generally the software and who … | |
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@CoolSWEng Interesting 🫤 Explains a lot really. | |
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@CoolSWEng Maybe they are also missing their Blackberry? I've driven a Mode… | |
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@CoolSWEng Unfortunately, this holds true for some of my colleagues as well 🥲 | |
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@CoolSWEng If those designers were not drivers then it’s likely they either c… | |
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@65dBnoise @CoolSWEng Former tech exec car industry here:1. It’s a combinatio… | |
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@CoolSWEng With respect, I think this comment says half of it. You don't pu… | |
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@CoolSWEng I love that even engineers working for car companies have no interes… | |
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@CoolSWEng Thank you.Touch screens at car companies first happened at Buick in … | |
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@CoolSWEng The ultimate in ergonomics design used to be considered to be the mo… | |
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@CoolSWEng I want to share but the terms and conditions at the top of the alt t… | |
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@CoolSWEngFYI, ft.com inserted some text about not copy/pasting from their site… | |
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@nyquildotorg @CoolSWEng That's really awful of them, seriously | |
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@CoolSWEng this story matches exactly what these damn things look like and yet … | |
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@CoolSWEng soon enough it'd be vibe designed | |
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@CoolSWEng @cm I disagree. The main problem is that there is a screen at all as… | |
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@CoolSWEng Why the ergonomics of _everything_ has gone to sh**.Not just cars. | |
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@meltedcheese @CoolSWEng So one could probably trust traditional automakers a l… | |
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@fazalmajid @CoolSWEng That's a start, but they shouldn't be street-leg… | |
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@CoolSWEng maybe the designers grew up with modern cellphones and tablets and w… | |
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@[email protected] i think the problem is the guy who decided to make … | |
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@paddyduke @CoolSWEng Yeah. It seems dubious to blame all the individual design… | |
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@CoolSWEng Whilst I like the simple explanation, I think this is not the root c… | |
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@CoolSWEng @quixoticgeek Ok but I can’t help to think that all execs pushing … | |
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@CoolSWEng that is just...it's incredible to me. car interiors designed by … | |
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@CoolSWEng having witnessed a new car programme within a manufacturer, parts ar… | |
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@paddyduke @datenwolf @CoolSWEng "The worst user interfaces are created by… | |
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@CoolSWEng wow this is much much worse. | |
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@CoolSWEng Finally! The first time I saw a panel in a car, I thought: That'… | |
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@rastilin @paddyduke @CoolSWEng dunnow, I remember working in a team that wrote… | |
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@CoolSWEng Okay, but isn't this why car-makers have extensive road-testing … | |
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@CoolSWEng That matches with what I've heard some years ago:No driver's… |