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Originally Posted by BryanGT
I develop touch user interfaces for a living, and the BRZ Limited's touchscreen head-unit is a total piece of shit, here's why: - There physical hardware buttons (side from than the volume knob) are dedicated to functions that aren't used enough to justify a hardware button. Physical buttons can be operated without looks, and thus they should be allocated to common interactions like channel presets, or at least up/down to cycle through those presets.
- The screen digitizer calibration sucks, it's easy to "miss" onscreen buttons. The lag between touch and response is too damn high.
- Radio station presets and the tuning buttons are located towards the center of the screen instead of the physical edge, which aggravates gorilla arm, and forces you to take your eyes off the road to see a simple station change. Locating these soft buttons near the edge (especially near physical cues along the edge) would eliminate some of the need for the aforementioned hard buttons.
Given all that I actually agree with the dude. They made the UI so shitty that secondary physical button (on the wheel or wherever) would really improve safety. |
I'll jump in with the minority and agree with you. I don't necessarily think that there needs to be steering wheel buttons in the car, but the touch interface for the radio is terrible. The physical buttons should have been for radio presets. I also agree that placing the buttons that are most used in the middle of the screen rather than close to the edge so you have a tactile point of reference was very poorly designed.
For those of us using the car as a DD, we're obviously going to be changing the radio while driving. It would be nice not to have to balance visually searching for the channel presets with keeping our eyes on the road.