If your device needs printed instructions for basic should-be-obvious operations, your user interface design is defective. (This is a Tesla showroom.)
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@cstross I wouldn't care if they were only affecting their own awful customers, but by glamorizing these shit UI elements, they've got all the other car manufacturers copying them and endangering everyone. NTM kids who didn't consent to die in a fire.
@cstross core user interface interface actions are like jokes: if you have to explain them, the problem is not in the audience.
@cstross That was written by a tech author. Why didn't the tech author not say "I'm not writing that, if those instructions are needed your product is crap"?
@cstross The door handle did not need disrupting.
Apparently you open the glovebox from a pull down menu. That didn’t need disrupting either.
Having ridden in one as an Uber, they also appear to have disrupted the concept of “needing suspension”. I now never select “eco” when hiring an Uber in case I get a Tesla. I’m in my 50s. My back doesn’t deserve that.
Agree this design is bad and dangerous. China may ban it.
But, is there a cultural element to obviousness: is a door handle obvious to someone who hasn't seen one used before? That unobvious link between lever and larger body action used to be sufficient to stop forest dwellers like bears, but no more. They've even learned to operate hidden trashbin handles. I have seen a foreigner completely stumped by a can opener. The Irish made a sport out of stumping foreigners 🤣
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@avi2022 @cstross is a handle on a door obvious? yes, if it looks like a handle. it's a space to put your fingers when pulling something. tell me about a culture that does not have handles?
the aztecs had no wheels, but, what do you want to bet they had handles?
edit: actually if you're looking to open a door then you'll probably put your fingers in a handle if there is one, whether you recognise it as a handle or not. you're looking for purchase to pull on the door…
@cstross A terrible car, the product of a terrible company owned by an extremely terrible person
@cstross Why would anyone want to get inside a literal Nazi-car? Putting aside neonazis of course
@cstross more importantly, safety critical, a number of people have burned alive in Teslas because their door controls became inoperative and they did not know where the emergency manual release latch is.
Also, China just banned recessed door handles like Tesla's. They may help aerodynamics a tiny bit, but once again a safety hazard.
@cstross Let‘s not start talking about the emergency handle under the diriver’s side floor mat.
