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My work coffee maker has a touch screen and the interface is so laggy it's insane. The manufacturer controls every aspect of the hardware and software so it ma
by wvenable 6y ago
My work coffee maker has a touch screen and the interface is so laggy it's insane. The manufacturer controls every aspect of the hardware and software so it makes no sense -- either make the hardware more powerful or make the software simpler!
- charles_f 6y agoOh hell on earth, my work coffee machine takes no less than 6 consecutive choices including a scroll through options and questions, with lag at each step of the process to select what you want. To make black coffee. What drink do you want? What roast? What size? How much sugar? How much milk? Confirm your selection. All that for the option than more than 1/2 users are selecting.
- ericlewis 6y agoThis is where NLP would excel or even some nice regex. It doesn’t have to be this hard.
- echoteecat 6y ago"Computer, Coffee. Black."
- tomp 6y agoOr just a simple “repeat last choice”.
- exdsq 6y agoThat’d require typing something in though? I’d like a dial for strength and a button per coffee option
- avip 6y agoI can reproducibly deadlock my workplace coffee machine. You press the coffee type and immediately hit the "clean" button. Then the machine is dead with no recourse other than unplug. Try that trick on a Makineta.
- whywhywhywhy 6y ago>The manufacturer controls every aspect of the hardware and software so it makes no sense Makes perfect sense, the only way you'll get a responsive touchscreen is if one of the engineers behind it actually cares about it being responsive. Otherwise the job goes down to the designer to try and pressure the engineers into making it responsive which there is a chance they might not even be skilled enough to understand how to make that happen. If they don't want to make it happen there is a hundred excuses as to why its not actually their fault. To make an actual good, responsive product you need people at every level of the implementation who care deeply about their work.
- oriolid 6y agoMost importantly, you need product manager that cares about the UI being responsive. As an engineer it's not produce a responsive UI if you have time only for a barely working product.