CES 2016 – Observations for Product People

Re:CES 2016 – Observations for Product People by jedberg on Tuesday January 12, 2016 @01:47PM (#10889437)

> What was amazing was just how rare it was to even see a keyboard and certainly gone are rows of rectangular buttons. Yay!

This actually makes me sad. I liked the old days where I could operate my device without having to look at it, just by feeling the buttons. This is especially true for car radios, but it would be nice to be able to work blind.

With a kid in one arm it's a lot easier to have buttons than a touchscreen.

(And yes I'm aware that a touchscreen offers a much deeper UX experience, but still, buttons can be nice too)

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Re:CES 2016 – Observations for Product People by shostack on Tuesday January 12, 2016 @02:53PM (#10889879)

I'll chime in and add that they can pry my 5th gen clickwheel iPod out of my cold dead fingers. I LOVE being able to track through a song in an easily controllable manner, pause, play, etc. all without taking the device out of my pocket.

Oh, and in its spare time, it serves as a portable 80GB HDD.

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Re:CES 2016 – Observations for Product People by edge17 on Tuesday January 12, 2016 @01:54PM (#10889490)

I think touchscreens will become more versatile as they evolve. This is a good read - http://worrydream.com/ABriefRantOnTheFutureOfInteractionDesi...

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Re:CES 2016 – Observations for Product People by cpeterso on Tuesday January 12, 2016 @02:58PM (#10889913)

I heard that a "no button" garage door remote control featured at CES was a phone app... that had a software button to open your door.

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