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      Buttons beat touchscreens in cars, and now there’s data to prove it

      news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Thursday, 18 August, 2022 - 13:29

    Close-up on a woman using GPS on her cell phone while driving her car

    Enlarge / Not all progress is good. (credit: Hispanolistic/Getty Images)

    It's probably a little early to be warning of extinction, but in some new cars, buttons are becoming hard to find. Given that a screen has to go into the dashboard anyway (thanks to things like backup camera requirements) and the fact that people increasingly won't consider a car without Android Auto or Apple CarPlay, touchscreens make life easier for automakers in terms of design and assembly.

    It's just that they don't make life easier for drivers. Instead, we're treated to bad interfaces that don't create muscle memory but instead distract us while we should be driving. And now, Swedish car publication Vi Bilägare has the data to prove it .

    VB tested 11 new cars alongside a 2005 Volvo C70, timing how long it took to perform a list of tasks in each car. These included turning on the seat heater, increasing the cabin temperature, turning on the defroster, adjusting the radio, resetting the trip computer, turning off the screen, and dimming the instruments.

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      Apple Nags Killing UX

      pubsub.slavino.sk / perishablepress · Thursday, 3 September, 2020 - 18:08 edit

    Heads up! This post is a giant rant about Apple screwing up the user experience (UX). If that is not what you want to read, then now is your chance to hit that back button and escape. Otherwise, if you feel like hearing all about it, continue reading. With Apple devices in the past, you could log in to an Apple account or not. No hassles. No worries. Just enjoy the software. Enjoy that super smooth Apple user experience. Right? […]

    Značky: #apps, #Tech, #ux, #Media, #Rozne, #apple

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      About the New Perishable Press Bookstore

      Jeff Starr · pubsub.slavino.sk / perishablepress · Monday, 15 June, 2020 - 22:57 edit

    After six months of on-again, off-again hard work (and plenty of unexpected challenges), I am excited to launch the new Perishable Press Bookstore. The old bookstore was located on a separate domain, but I wanted it to be better integrated with the main site here at Perishable Press. So now there is the site blog at perishablepress.com and the store at books.perishablepress.com. Having both sites under the same domain enables me to now streamline and simplify a LOT of stuff […]

    Značky: #News, #WordPress, #books, #design, #performance, #theme, #themes, #ux, #Rozne