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> Touch screen controls strike me as not being about cost but being about incredibly lazy UI It's almost always about cost. Touch screens are shocking cheap th
by whywhywhywhy 7y ago
> Touch screen controls strike me as not being about cost but being about incredibly lazy UI
It's almost always about cost. Touch screens are shocking cheap thanks to smartphones driving the prices down and physical controls can be shockingly expensive per control.
- rland 7y agoDo you have an idea of why dials and buttons are so expensive? That surprises me. The components aren't particularly high tech.
- president 7y agoI would imagine it's more the one-time cost of the R&D for developing the digital menu system vs per-unit hardware costs for the dials/buttons over time.
- cletus 7y agoI should probably elaborate on what I mean about "lazy UI". For a touchscreen UI, the thinking seems to be that they view this is something they can fix later with an update because a touch screen is an updatable blank canvas. The effect of that is you end up skimping on UI design because it's "optional". Hard buttons force your hand more. You have to think about what buttons you want and how they're going to work in a way you just don't have to with touch screens. So you're forced to do a level of UI/UX design that you're not with touch screens.