Recent content by LightningRider

Hey y'all 👋🏽, I'm the creator of a new video series called "The UX of Our Everyday Lives" that explores how and why the tech we interact with everyday is built this way. My focus is on educating people and practicing cinematography. A segment I'm working on is exploring the digital and physical...

I've been meaning to take a Plaid for a test drive. With the lack of variable steering and the ergonomics needed for daily driving maneuvers paired with capacitive buttons makes for an alarmingly bad design choice on paper, with real world results confirming it. MKBHD's video discussed the...

@Gauss Guzzler Spot on w/ software testing. I'm constantly amazed Tesla continues this practice at this level of scale. It's beyond "the fans" that own Tesla's now. Busy parents will be nowhere as tolerant as some fans have been for experiencing bugs. @DrChaos having worked in Tech for a...

Customization can be a good thing. For Tesla it could accomplish several things: users could rearrange their screen (or have multiple setups saved) to suit their preferences: Performance models could have a no map, purists could remove everything but the odometer. I think customizing has to be...

Thanks and good point on the swipe area size! I have applied a few times over the years. I don't think I'm what they're looking for.

That's unfortunate to hear talent at Tesla being lost to increasing stress and chaos - you'd think they were over that mountain with getting Model 3 and Y off the ground. I wholly agree that for many employers, in many industries, there is subpar management who forgo any good design thinking...

Was there a HW change between that time period? We know that there is MCU 3 now in 2022 with the AMD processor.

Agree with OP, from a user interface standpoint there are simpler methods than what is there to indicate someone is actively in a person's blindspot that is 1) easily glanceable by the driver and 2) doesn't need AP to be active when doing. There's a lot of context currently in what is needed to...

Long time lurker, first time posting here! I've had a Model 3 since May '18, and I've been a professional Designer (sometimes called UI/UX Designer and Product Designer) for several years now. I didn't expect Tesla to take so many basic steps back in driver usability, nor did I expect that as we...