<story><title>Fighter pilot breaks down every button in an F-15 cockpit [video]</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zikI2fazPLo</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>systemvoltage</author><text>What a masterpiece of UX&amp;#x2F;UI. Holyshit.&lt;p&gt;So many amazing details. Notice how the texture of the trim knob is different than other controls. When cost is no barrier, you can have mechanical switches, toggles, flip-off guards, various shapes and sizes of knobs, levers, color coding, hazard markings, etc. - all made from top notch materials and you bet, the haptics were totally engineered for best possible way to reduce ambiguity. Aesthetics take a back seat.&lt;p&gt;Also, props to the narrator. She was to the point and well informed.&lt;p&gt;I hope UI&amp;#x2F;UX designers (even for web design), industrial designers, architects, ergonomicists, HMI designers be inspired from this with one major take away - stop putting personal taste, aesthetics, decoration, marketing, etc. before functionality and pragmatism. Especially those working in vehicle interior design - people need to realize we drive a deadly 2-ton machine on our roads. Make no mistake, modern regression of UI in cars is because of bean counters - touchscreens are vastly cheaper than physical encoders&amp;#x2F;switches&amp;#x2F;toggles, especially automotive grade ones. [1]&lt;p&gt;Can you imagine if you had to flip a toggle switch to turn bluetooth on in your car? I know you&amp;#x27;re smiling from just the thought of it. People make the case that UI needs to be simple for people to use at the expense of density, but remember - we already look at the world which is very messy and navigate it without a problem. Millions navigate through airports. People knew how to use Yellow Pages (extreme density) and telephone books. Making UI more understandable is orthogonal to information density.&lt;p&gt;Unrelated: It is a shame that SpaceX&amp;#x27;s dragon crew cockpit design ditched all this in favor of a more sexier (arguable) looking sci-fi aesthetics. IMO it looks like a cheap movie set including the space suits.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.mouser.com&amp;#x2F;ALPS&amp;#x2F;Electromechanical&amp;#x2F;Encoders&amp;#x2F;_&amp;#x2F;N-39xfc?P=1z13wb5&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.mouser.com&amp;#x2F;ALPS&amp;#x2F;Electromechanical&amp;#x2F;Encoders&amp;#x2F;_&amp;#x2F;N-3...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>trynewideas</author><text>&amp;gt; Also, props to the narrator. She was to the point and well informed.&lt;p&gt;For context, in addition to her career as a fighter pilot and squadron commander, Col. Themely was commander of the 80th Flying Training Wing in 2017 and 2018, which encompassed the Euro-NATO Joint Jet Pilot Training program (ENJJPT),[1] &amp;quot;the world&amp;#x27;s only multi-nationally manned and managed flying training program chartered to produce combat pilots for NATO&amp;quot;.[2] She retired in October 2018.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.sheppard.af.mil&amp;#x2F;News&amp;#x2F;Article-Display&amp;#x2F;Article&amp;#x2F;1566640&amp;#x2F;themely-takes-final-flight-with-80th-ftw&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.sheppard.af.mil&amp;#x2F;News&amp;#x2F;Article-Display&amp;#x2F;Article&amp;#x2F;156...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[2] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.sheppard.af.mil&amp;#x2F;Library&amp;#x2F;Fact-Sheets&amp;#x2F;Display&amp;#x2F;Article&amp;#x2F;367537&amp;#x2F;euro-nato-joint-jet-pilot-training-program-enjjpt&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.sheppard.af.mil&amp;#x2F;Library&amp;#x2F;Fact-Sheets&amp;#x2F;Display&amp;#x2F;Arti...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Fighter pilot breaks down every button in an F-15 cockpit [video]</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zikI2fazPLo</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>systemvoltage</author><text>What a masterpiece of UX&amp;#x2F;UI. Holyshit.&lt;p&gt;So many amazing details. Notice how the texture of the trim knob is different than other controls. When cost is no barrier, you can have mechanical switches, toggles, flip-off guards, various shapes and sizes of knobs, levers, color coding, hazard markings, etc. - all made from top notch materials and you bet, the haptics were totally engineered for best possible way to reduce ambiguity. Aesthetics take a back seat.&lt;p&gt;Also, props to the narrator. She was to the point and well informed.&lt;p&gt;I hope UI&amp;#x2F;UX designers (even for web design), industrial designers, architects, ergonomicists, HMI designers be inspired from this with one major take away - stop putting personal taste, aesthetics, decoration, marketing, etc. before functionality and pragmatism. Especially those working in vehicle interior design - people need to realize we drive a deadly 2-ton machine on our roads. Make no mistake, modern regression of UI in cars is because of bean counters - touchscreens are vastly cheaper than physical encoders&amp;#x2F;switches&amp;#x2F;toggles, especially automotive grade ones. [1]&lt;p&gt;Can you imagine if you had to flip a toggle switch to turn bluetooth on in your car? I know you&amp;#x27;re smiling from just the thought of it. People make the case that UI needs to be simple for people to use at the expense of density, but remember - we already look at the world which is very messy and navigate it without a problem. Millions navigate through airports. People knew how to use Yellow Pages (extreme density) and telephone books. Making UI more understandable is orthogonal to information density.&lt;p&gt;Unrelated: It is a shame that SpaceX&amp;#x27;s dragon crew cockpit design ditched all this in favor of a more sexier (arguable) looking sci-fi aesthetics. IMO it looks like a cheap movie set including the space suits.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.mouser.com&amp;#x2F;ALPS&amp;#x2F;Electromechanical&amp;#x2F;Encoders&amp;#x2F;_&amp;#x2F;N-39xfc?P=1z13wb5&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.mouser.com&amp;#x2F;ALPS&amp;#x2F;Electromechanical&amp;#x2F;Encoders&amp;#x2F;_&amp;#x2F;N-3...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>avalys</author><text>&amp;gt; Especially those working in vehicle interior design - people need to realize we drive a deadly 2-ton machine on our roads.&lt;p&gt;This sounds very smart and serious, which must be why someone makes the same point in literally every discussion of a control interface for some kind of vehicle - but I challenge you to provide evidence that fixable UX problems in modern automobiles have led to an increase in accident rates.&lt;p&gt;In fact, most modern vehicles use touchscreens to solve the very problem that you are supposedly concerned about. Rather than a complicated cockpit full of individual buttons and switches to control every single function, most modern cars have a few easy-to-find buttons and switches for functions you might want to access while driving (i.e. radio volume, climate temperature, fan speed), and use the touchscreen to hide all the more complicated and lesser-used settings out of the way!&lt;p&gt;Do you really think that putting your grandmother into a car that resembled that F-15 cockpit would be a safer option? What happens if she forgets where the button is to, say, turn on the A&amp;#x2F;C compressor? Is she going to read every single label while cruising down the highway at 75 mph?</text></comment>