Stop Hiding My Controls: Hidden Interface Controls Are Affecting Usability

Re:Stop Hiding My Controls: Hidden Interface Controls Are Af... by gblargg on Saturday July 05, 2025 @11:11PM (#44477517)

It allows UI designers to add nearly endless settings and controls where they were before limited by dash space. It's similar to how everything having flash for firmware allows shipping buggy products that they justify because they can always fix it with a firmware update.

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Re:Stop Hiding My Controls: Hidden Interface Controls Are Af... by hulitu on Sunday July 06, 2025 @07:23AM (#44479747)

> It allows UI designers to add nearly endless settings and controls where they were before limited by dash space

Except, they don't do it.

Just like your Windows PC is capable of drawing a raised or sunked 3D button, or a scrollbar, but, they don't do it anymore.

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Re:Stop Hiding My Controls: Hidden Interface Controls Are Af... by TeMPOraL on Sunday July 06, 2025 @10:01AM (#44480891)

The real cost saving is in the touch panel being a single component. It eliminates the need to optimize UI in physical space, and decouples the UI design and testing from the rest of the car design and manufacturing process. As a bonus, both hardware and software for the panel can then be outsourced do the lowest bidder or bought as a bottom-of-the-barrel COTS package.

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