A New Car UI: How touch screen controls in cars should work on HackerTube: recommended by 4 Hacker News commenters across 6 separate months, 2017–2023.
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Matthaeus Krenn presents a concept for car touchscreen UI where the screen controls only one thing at a time, designed to suit driving. A tablet prototype accompanies the short demo.
Repeatedly cited in car touchscreen debates as an elegant, sensible alternative to distracting automotive UIs.
“I feel compelled to share a video, now 9 years old, that shows how touch screens could be accommodated with sensible design in cars.”
6 Hacker News comments link this video. Each one links back to its thread.
I feel compelled to share a video, now 9 years old, that shows how touch screens could be accommodated with sensible design in cars. The UIs we are used to on our phones are not suitable for driving, but we could make something that is. ▶ this video
in “The Glorious Return of a Humble Car Feature” · View on HN
I have a 2015 Audi A3. I didn't want the brand at all, but loved (and still love) the dial control. I've been dreading getting a new car specifically because I do not want the touch screen. Fortunately, I still have a few years left of good life in this machine, otherwise I'd jump on one of those immediately! I still wish something like this UI would have caught on. ▶ this video
in “Some new BMWs won't have touchscreens thanks to chip shortage” · View on HN
It doesn't help that automotive latency for touch screens is incredibly bad. It it had smartphone level response maybe it would be a better starting point for comparison. I'd love to see something like this, even in a Tesla. ▶ this video
in “Porsche Taycan revealed: $150,900 base price, 0-60 MPH in 3 seconds” · View on HN
Every time I see posts about car touch screen interfaces, and the associated UX problems, I am reminded of this video I saw a few years ago [0]. I think it is an elegant solution (only allow ONE thing to be controlled by the touch screen at a time), however will require a lot of learning and remembering to get used to all the different gestures. [0] - ▶ this video
in “Why touchscreens in cars don’t work” · View on HN
I'd love to see the antithesis of this collection - whereby smart UI designers try and improve the current audio controls to move away from the old style knobs/sliders, to something far better represented by todays interfaces, such as this concept for a car audio control: ▶ this video
in “Redditors design worst volume sliders possible” · View on HN
Whew, I was glad to see they hadn't completely scrapped the iconic 4 rings. Nice to see them making all their branding assets available like this though - right down to the icon sets etc. That would make third party apps or in car navigation systems etc. conform to the same look and feel. On that note - I wonder how soon it will be before car manufacturers have 'app stores' for add ons to their internal systems. Wouldn't it be cool, for instance, to have a custom navigation app that you could install in your Tesla to supplement the factory installed one? For example - this engineer's proof of concept for a touch screen interface in a car [0]. If he could brand it with the Audi graphic assets and pitch it to them, I am sure it will go a long way to them incorporating it in their future vehicles... [0] - ▶ this video
in “Audi's logo rebrand” · View on HN