My god, UX has taken a cliff dive in the last 20 years. There are so many things being replaced with touch buttons and touch screens that DO NOT NEED THEM. A good old physical clicky button is going to remain the best way to interact with 98% of digital inputs and yet product designers cut 1.2¢ by putting capacitive touch interfaces.
Fuck touch buttons and any other non-click-button control that doesn’t need to be. Just let me push the button!
I mean for a complex system I get it (because 1 screen = many many buttons. I hate it regardless but I understand where it comes from), but like a water dispenser?
A simple tactile button costs around 0.10¢ of € on aliexpress, an ultrasonic proximity sensor is like 1.70€
So, unless there is a better way to understand the distance that i don’t know, they are wasting money, it’s just for the “modern and cool” factor to sell more
(All this without counting the price of a micro controller to read the sensor input, you could engineer the whole dispenser to work without one)
For cars, it’s more than just the cost saving of physical switches but the entire oesign budget: just put all that shit on a touch screen for every model.
I hate it. I was so happy when I finally bought a used car with bluetooth. It’s probably all downhill from here.
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My god, UX has taken a cliff dive in the last 20 years. There are so many things being replaced with touch buttons and touch screens that DO NOT NEED THEM. A good old physical clicky button is going to remain the best way to interact with 98% of digital inputs and yet product designers cut 1.2¢ by putting capacitive touch interfaces.
Fuck touch buttons and any other non-click-button control that doesn’t need to be. Just let me push the button!
How come a touch button is cheaper though?
I mean for a complex system I get it (because 1 screen = many many buttons. I hate it regardless but I understand where it comes from), but like a water dispenser?
A simple tactile button costs around 0.10¢ of € on aliexpress, an ultrasonic proximity sensor is like 1.70€
So, unless there is a better way to understand the distance that i don’t know, they are wasting money, it’s just for the “modern and cool” factor to sell more
(All this without counting the price of a micro controller to read the sensor input, you could engineer the whole dispenser to work without one)
For cars, it’s more than just the cost saving of physical switches but the entire oesign budget: just put all that shit on a touch screen for every model.
I hate it. I was so happy when I finally bought a used car with bluetooth. It’s probably all downhill from here.