• otacon239@lemmy.world
    16·
    11 days ago

    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!

    • schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works
      5·
      11 days ago

      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.

    • Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      2·
      10 days ago

      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?

    • Axolotl@feddit.it
      2·
      8 days ago

      A simple tactile button costs around 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)

      Edit: changed the price from 0.10¢ to 10¢, no ones sells things at a cent of a cent!