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My Ford uses Fitt's Law to good effect. The big functions (phone, audio, navigation, climate) each have a button in one of the four corners of the screen. You c

My Ford uses Fitt's Law to good effect. The big functions (phone, audio, navigation, climate) each have a button in one of the four corners of the screen. You can slide til you feel the bezel and press. That still doesn't help with subfunctions like picking a radio station, etc. but voice control and steering wheel buttons pick up the slack. I still miss well-placed physical controls.

marcoperaza 11y ago
That's a neat trick on Ford's part. Maybe car touchscreens need a different interaction language. Instead of touch being the primary action trigger, touch would only change the selection (and produce some tactile/haptic feedback as the selection changes) and a harder press (with its own distinct feedback) would actually activate the function. By dragging your finger around the screen, you could feel out the layout of the controls.