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Touchpads are a horrible interface for almost any device - especially ones that can easily kill when there is an operator mistake. God I hate touchpad or touch

Touchpads are a horrible interface for almost any device - especially ones that can easily kill when there is an operator mistake. God I hate touchpad or touch based controls or whatever the correct term is, even on mobile phones they are almost always terrible to use.

mihaaly 3y ago
And many argued that cars could be "improved" further with voice recognition....! Disaster waiting to happen.
polski-g 3y ago
Touchpad controls are so bad I've literally never played a game on my phone.
- idkwhoiam 3y ago
  Same here. I cannot stand using touch interface to do anything other than lightweight web browsing. I found an XBox One wireless controller worked wonders with my iPad for gaming.
  - mihaaly 3y ago
    I avoid restaurants/shops where touchscreen is used for odering food. I simply go elsewhere. Order on a giant screen is both awkward (UIs are tend to be tuned to be flashy rather than functional) and disgusting.
- dgrin91 3y ago
  I can't tell if this is sarcastic or not
spinningslate 3y ago
I'm not big on touchscreens on phones, though it doesn't drive me mad personally. Real estate is a practical limitation and so forces trade-offs. The big difference with a phone/tablet is that you're looking at the screen when using it. That's fundamental to the interaction experience. Cars are _completely_ different: a driver should be looking at *the road*. Touchscreens as the main control interface for cars were a stupifying dumb idea right from the start. It's as if the alphageeks burst through the design studio doors, shunted the ergnonomicists aside, and proclaimed anything physical was neanderthal and out of date. Behold, the emperor has new clothes! "We can do all this in SOFTWARE, and it's adaptable, we can use clever colours, and look if you just tap this menu three times and slide along here, YOU CAN BOOST THE BASS IN THE RIGHT REAR SPEAKER! Show me how you do THAT with your Victorian buttons!". Fair play to Mazda for leading the resistance movement here - and good to see VW actually listening and doing something about it. With any luck, touch screen car control will suffer the ignominious death it deserves.
ess3 3y ago
My biggest gripe is touch interfaces on stoves. You constantly spill water or other things.
ponector 3y ago
Have you tried to use train ticket machine without touch screen? It is a nightmare, but popular in France. Few buttons and a wheel - all you have to go through the journey to type your start and destination points, amount of people, age, discounts, etc.
johny115 3y ago
when you think about it, touch is good for complex things and it's universal, the UI can shift to anything for specialized repetitive control, doesn't seem to make much sense to me - certain functions in car, will be super repetitive, AC control, speaker volume, etc. even for phones this logic applies, volume buttons are still physical this means that something like navigation is better of with voice/touch (coz who would want physical letter keyboard there) ... but to pull down a window? yeah, hell nah with touch

mihaaly 3y ago

And many argued that cars could be "improved" further with voice recognition....! Disaster waiting to happen.

polski-g 3y ago

Touchpad controls are so bad I've literally never played a game on my phone.

idkwhoiam 3y ago
Same here. I cannot stand using touch interface to do anything other than lightweight web browsing. I found an XBox One wireless controller worked wonders with my iPad for gaming.
- mihaaly 3y ago
  I avoid restaurants/shops where touchscreen is used for odering food. I simply go elsewhere. Order on a giant screen is both awkward (UIs are tend to be tuned to be flashy rather than functional) and disgusting.
dgrin91 3y ago
I can't tell if this is sarcastic or not

spinningslate 3y ago

I'm not big on touchscreens on phones, though it doesn't drive me mad personally. Real estate is a practical limitation and so forces trade-offs. The big difference with a phone/tablet is that you're looking at the screen when using it. That's fundamental to the interaction experience. Cars are _completely_ different: a driver should be looking at *the road*. Touchscreens as the main control interface for cars were a stupifying dumb idea right from the start. It's as if the alphageeks burst through the design studio doors, shunted the ergnonomicists aside, and proclaimed anything physical was neanderthal and out of date. Behold, the emperor has new clothes! "We can do all this in SOFTWARE, and it's adaptable, we can use clever colours, and look if you just tap this menu three times and slide along here, YOU CAN BOOST THE BASS IN THE RIGHT REAR SPEAKER! Show me how you do THAT with your Victorian buttons!". Fair play to Mazda for leading the resistance movement here - and good to see VW actually listening and doing something about it. With any luck, touch screen car control will suffer the ignominious death it deserves.

ess3 3y ago

My biggest gripe is touch interfaces on stoves. You constantly spill water or other things.

ponector 3y ago

Have you tried to use train ticket machine without touch screen? It is a nightmare, but popular in France. Few buttons and a wheel - all you have to go through the journey to type your start and destination points, amount of people, age, discounts, etc.

johny115 3y ago

when you think about it, touch is good for complex things and it's universal, the UI can shift to anything for specialized repetitive control, doesn't seem to make much sense to me - certain functions in car, will be super repetitive, AC control, speaker volume, etc. even for phones this logic applies, volume buttons are still physical this means that something like navigation is better of with voice/touch (coz who would want physical letter keyboard there) ... but to pull down a window? yeah, hell nah with touch