Re:How Not to Design a Microwave
by snops on Sunday January 07, 2018 @05:26AM
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All of those examples show large, high DPI (really thin fonts) colour touch screens, in non standard sizes.
These are completely impractical from a cost perspective, requiring expensive tooling (>$100K) and easily $50 per screen (e.g. iPhone screen https://technology.ihs.com/595738/), plus the massive firmware development cost increase from a small 8 bit micro to some giant ARM core, probably with a GPU as well.
You wouldn't design a phone app using the non standard widget toolkit unless you had a good reason, why do designers dabbling in appliance design not use the standard toolkit of physical switches and knobs to start with and see what they can come up with?
These are completely impractical from a cost perspective, requiring expensive tooling (>$100K) and easily $50 per screen (e.g. iPhone screen https://technology.ihs.com/595738/), plus the massive firmware development cost increase from a small 8 bit micro to some giant ARM core, probably with a GPU as well.
You wouldn't design a phone app using the non standard widget toolkit unless you had a good reason, why do designers dabbling in appliance design not use the standard toolkit of physical switches and knobs to start with and see what they can come up with?