Ugly? 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

Ugly? 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.