[Info-vax] [OT] touchscreen UIs

[Simon Clubley]

On 2023-06-12, Andy Burns <usenet at andyburns.uk> wrote:
> Simon Clubley wrote:
>
>> Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>>
>>> Try design a car using 40 year
>>> old practices and compare the result to a modern car.
>>>
>> 
>> If that results in a car with real physical buttons for everything,
>> that would be an improvement.
>
> My 6 year old car has two screens, but neither is a touchscreen, have 
> they all stopped having physical buttons during that time?
>

It's heading that way (apart from the mandatory controls). :-(

It appears the cretins responsible for "modern" UI designs have now
been let loose on the vehicle UIs.

Some reading for you:

https://www.themanual.com/auto/touchscreen-in-car-less-safe-than-buttons/

Here is a balanced review that discusses both the positive and negative
aspects of touchscreens and categorises the various vehicle controls:

https://www.theturnsignalblog.com/blog/touch-screens/

Finally, here's some research done on modern flat UIs in general:

https://www.nngroup.com/articles/flat-ui-less-attention-cause-uncertainty/

Simon.

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