Re:How the design of a BMW Motorcycle affects your App
by eru on Tuesday August 18, 2009 @07:14AM
(#770194)
Do you really have to reset the blinkers after turning? (I've never driven a motor cycle, but cars reset automatically just fine.)
Re:How the design of a BMW Motorcycle affects your App
by 10ren on Tuesday August 18, 2009 @07:40AM
(#770214)
Yes.
BTW: Cars blinkers don't reset when changing lanes. There's also that joke about solving the problem of indicating left and forgetting about it. The solution is that if you haven't turned left after 15 seconds, the car automatically turns left.
When designing websites there is a good case to be made for sticking to the familiar (unless you want to make a point) but to use motor cycle design (especially BMW, one of the most renowned bike brands on the planet with a lot more design credit than the author) as an example is poorly chosen.
The whole idea is that you have the thumb of your right hand pretty much in that spot anyway, so no reaction time is lost, rather the opposite, you don't have to make that awkward reset motion with your left hand in order to switch off the blinkers after having made a right hand turn.
This is more convenient, not less convenient.