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Counterpoint, airplane controls are ugly and bad because there is no incentive to make them less ugly and bad.
by fhood 9y ago
Counterpoint, airplane controls are ugly and bad because there is no incentive to make them less ugly and bad.
- digi_owl 9y agoAnd when they do try, we get things like the airbus side stick that have scrap all relation to the actual state of the plane.
- InternetOfStuff 9y agoUgly? IDK, I like them. Bad? Not at all. UI designers try very hard to make them intuitive, and from what I hear are largely succeeding. TBH, if I look at an aircraft cockpit (especially a modern one), I have little trouble orienting myself, or figuring out how to tell the plane to do what I want. However I can easily believe that a person not well acquainted with airplanes and their systems would be overwhelmed. However that's not bad UX, that's just exposing the airplane's complex systems. I recently watched a few pilotseye.tv videos (the things people do for fun...), and observed a lot of very interesting details in the planes' UI that made a lot of sense, and underlined the attention to detail on the part of the UI designers. Sauce: I'm an aeronautical engineer.