Title: Tesla’s Groundbreaking UX: An interview with User Interface Manager Brennan Boblett
Context: Now even your car has a responsive UI. Still no cure for the flat tire.
Synopsis: Buttons, knobs, and dials. There has been no part of modern life so fraught with these industrial era UI contrivances as has the automobile. The cockpit of your average car varied little in the types of controls it offered in order to control its occupants’ environment. Feedback, climate, entertainment were all hardwired into the immoveable dashboard that surrounded the driver. Didn’t like where your sped indicator was? Too bad. Wished you could move the radio controls a little closer? Good luck. And let’s not even start talking about that little read “Check engine” LED. Truly manufacturing’s cruelest joke. But be constrained no more! Today’s technology is slowly finding its way into the modern automobile and this includes responsive, intelligent, customizable user interfaces that don’t just improve the ergonomics of your ride but also reinvent the user experience of your whole car. Welcome to the future of personal transport. Now about that flying car…
Best Bit: “If you think of all the time and effort that you can put into designing a user interface with the best UX team, none of that is relevant or even appreciated if it’s limited by the hardware itself.”
via uxmag.com
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