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I thought you were going to post this one https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23702560 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23702560
by jay_kyburz 3y ago
I thought you were going to post this one
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23702560 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23702560
- ChrisMarshallNY 3y agoAwesome!
- fransje26 3y agoI did not watch the video linked in the previous post (yet!), but a fun fact is that for the F-35, they decided it was a great idea to use touchscreens instead of push buttons, and they are finding out the hard way it was.. ..not the best of choices. It turns out that not having tactile feedback means that pilots are pressing the wrong button about 20% of the time. Even more so under g-loads.. https://nationalinterest.org/blog/reboot/technical-difficulties-f-35-has-touchscreen-problem-184103 https://nationalinterest.org/blog/reboot/technical-difficult...
- ChrisMarshallNY 3y agoIn the first version of The Design of Everyday Things, by Don Norman, he has a photo of the control panel for a nuclear reactor. There are two large levers, that, if I remember correctly, actuated the control rods. They were right next each other. The engineers replaced the two identical knobs, with handles from beer taps (Michelob and Heineken, IIRC). This differentiated the two controls.