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You open the owner’s manual, look up the section for the relevant bit of dashboard or console in the table of contents, flip to that page, and read the descript
by FroshKiller 7y ago
You open the owner’s manual, look up the section for the relevant bit of dashboard or console in the table of contents, flip to that page, and read the description of the buttons, gauges, and other labeled elements.
- WalterBright 7y agoDoesn't it strike you as bad UI design to have to consult a manual to find out that [squiggle] means "Defrost"? How does that help our international user who cannot understand "Defrost" to be faced with an English manual?
- HighPlainsDrftr 7y agoI am much better at using CLI's than I am using GUI's - just for this reason. Every time I see an icon, I have to think - what is it the person is trying to tell me. Usually, words work much better for me. I know many people that love architecture diagrams. I much prefer to read the words instead of looking at pictures. To me, a word is worth a thousand pictures.
- FroshKiller 7y agoNo. I am accustomed to reading documentation, especially when something isn’t clear to me. Bad UI design for a car would involve icons totally divorced from the physical function and which closely resemble each other. I wonder why an “international user” has bought a car whose manual isn’t localized and who can’t get a localized manual online.