4 Mistakes that automotive user interface designers keep making

4 Mistakes that automotive user interface designers keep making 

These basic software don'ts keep drivers from what they need to do

Author of the article: Benjamin Hunting

User interface design is hard, especially within the confines of an automotive environment that's intended to travel at highway speeds. It's here that the conflicting demands of safety, customer demands, and the ever-increasing list of apps and features shovelled into today's vehicles meet and compete for the limited attention resources of the driver

One consistent downside of the digital revolution inside modern cars and trucks has been the tendency to rely on software to pick up the slack when cutting production costs, smoothing out interior design, or attempting to monetize every waking moment a vehicle is occupied.

Screens might be cheap, but the safety and convenience costs of implementing a poorly thought-out user interface can be high. Here are four of the most egregious mistakes interface designers continue to make after all these years.

Trying to do everything with limited real estate

No matter how big you make an LCD panel, it still represents a limited portion of the available dash space available to a designer, and as such, it can only handle so many tasks before the onscreen real estate begins to feel a bit crowded.

Panels that span from one door to the other are now common in high-end luxury models, but the reverse has also become true for a slice of the more affordable market. It's no longer unusual to open the driver's door and find a single screen perched in the middle of the dash that's tasked with handling absolutely every task that might be required while out on the road, while also replacing the vehicle's gauge cluster.

Perhaps the poster child for this control consolidation is the current Mini family. The Cooper and its ilk rely on a single display to handle not just infotainment duties but also basic vehicle information such as speed and status. On top of that, the display itself is round rather than rectangular, which looks slick but removes substantial usable area versus a panel with 90-degree corners.

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Source: https://driving.ca/car-culture/auto-tech/4-mistakes-user-interface-designers-keep-making

 

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