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Re:Mercedes-Benz commits to bringing back physical buttons by aenis on Sunday May 03, 2026 @12:24PM (#47998554)
Yes, you are right. All my power tools (from Makita, Milwuakee, Festool) have absolutely phenomenal UI - so there are still corners of industrial design where the dark patterns/attention grabbing product people haven't ventured. They should be brought back to car companies.
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Re:Mercedes-Benz commits to bringing back physical buttons by b112 on Sunday May 03, 2026 @01:01PM (#47998934)
And I bet they were let go, when they tried to cite why all this change to no-buttons, attention-grabbing was wrong.

Upper management loves the "but everyone else is doing it" mentality, even if their mom would smack them aside the head for such logic.

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Re:Mercedes-Benz commits to bringing back physical buttons by mixmastamyk on Sunday May 03, 2026 @01:29PM (#47999289)
Reminds me of the Boeing story.
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Re:Mercedes-Benz commits to bringing back physical buttons by spockz on Sunday May 03, 2026 @06:15PM (#48002158)
Power tools are getting Bluetooth now. I saw a Festool battery operated sander where you could set the settings for the light on it and more via the app on your phone.
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