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I love the "powerful" retro sci-fi look but let's be honest about KITT, this UX is (unsurprisingly) terrible. All those glowy bar-graphs that line up perfectly

I love the "powerful" retro sci-fi look but let's be honest about KITT, this UX is (unsurprisingly) terrible. All those glowy bar-graphs that line up perfectly are hard to differentiate and flat out inappropriate for some measurements. There is way more information presented than needed, and it's not grouped into logical clusters at all. It looks super cool but it's a safety nightmare. The dashboard morphed a little during the show's run. KITT must have got an upgrade because the speedometer max went from 200 to 500 MPH. It's got a built in printer! I'm dying to know what "Propagation Delay HRS" is supposed to mean. And you know it's 80s because: no blue LEDs. https://knight-rider.fandom.com/wiki/K.I.T.T._(2000) https://knight-rider.fandom.com/wiki/K.I.T.T._(2000) https://www.deviantart.com/davemetlesits/art/Kitt-dash-S1-2-Revised-74115257 https://www.deviantart.com/davemetlesits/art/Kitt-dash-S1-2-... https://www.deviantart.com/davemetlesits/art/Knight-Rider-Kitt-dash-25153106 https://www.deviantart.com/davemetlesits/art/Knight-Rider-Ki...

motohagiography 6y ago
There with you on the nightmare aspect, but having spent time in tech, powerful looking but meaningless is a big selling point. It's representative and preformative. It's like when an enterprise customer says, "I know your product does this thing, but I need it to show everyone else it's doing it, and how sophisticated it is so they come to me to get it done!" A product doesn't need to solve a problem (looking at you, every security product ever), it needs to let the customer demonstrate value to their own coalition. The point of KITT was it made the Hoff look cool without the cost and risk of a sidekick co-star. I wouldn't replicate the dash, but I would certainly use it as a reference example for something that did that job. Great links, such a strange thing to be discussing a 40yr old fictional talking car.

motohagiography 6y ago

There with you on the nightmare aspect, but having spent time in tech, powerful looking but meaningless is a big selling point. It's representative and preformative. It's like when an enterprise customer says, "I know your product does this thing, but I need it to show everyone else it's doing it, and how sophisticated it is so they come to me to get it done!" A product doesn't need to solve a problem (looking at you, every security product ever), it needs to let the customer demonstrate value to their own coalition. The point of KITT was it made the Hoff look cool without the cost and risk of a sidekick co-star. I wouldn't replicate the dash, but I would certainly use it as a reference example for something that did that job. Great links, such a strange thing to be discussing a 40yr old fictional talking car.