status icons (bluetooth, wifi, etc.) used to be a glance away, on the top right corner. now they are behind a menu. it. is. insane. why the eff would you hide these things? soooooo stupid.
i'm really happy people like V11 (sarcasm). can't wait for more improvements (again, sarcasm)
just really tired of changing s@#t for the sake of change and then claiming it's better.
it's not.
On the Model S (and I assume X) those controls are still at the top of the screen.
This is a problem, IMO. I sure don't need everything shuffled around once a year.
My experience is that things got worse from v10 to v11... then I read many people saying v7 was better than v8, v8 was better then v9, and v9 was better than v10. This is not encouraging.
I work in software, so I'm not stranger to designers getting tired of their software and wanting to "freshen things up", however users do not want that. Users spend time and energy getting familiar with the software, and no one wants those efforts discarded.
I'm happy for an update when it includes a bug fix or a new feature. Otherwise, meh... who moved my cheese? (yells at cloud)
I'm a software engineer too, but I also have mild dyslexia. Dyslexics navigate the world through patterns and when the patterns change, it derails them.
I have a friend who is severely dyslexic and a "friend" who thought he knew better completely rearranged the icons on her phone to be what he thought was more efficient. She had a melt down. He couldn't understand what the problem was. I could see what her problem was, but it took a while to get through to him that she saw the world differently.
I loath OS updates that change everything. I usually push Windows updates until I absolutely have to update and then spend weeks working less efficiently because things aren't in the same place anymore. And I have some utilities to make later versions of Windows look like older versions. Open Shell gives you the same Start button menu of the Win 95-Win 2000 era.
For the software I'm developing I rarely change the interface unless my boss can make the case that some change would make work flow easier. Interfaces can always use tweaks to improve them, but do it intelligently, not just because it needs a fresh new look.
I think Tesla went out of their way to try to make things more difficult in the UI so that people wouldn’t play with it as much while driving down the road.
At least that’s my suspicion…
Of course the stubborn among us we’re gonna do it anyway and crash as a big FU Tesla… then Tesla will just get sued for making it impossible to use menu system and be right back to where they didn’t want to be.
The changes to the UI require more attention to the screen while driving, which is a big problem. Last winter after the V11 update I spent way too much time futzing with the screen trying to get the defroster turned on while driving on a rough road. I was very nervous during the process. I had trouble seeing the road because of the fogging and my finger kept bouncing off the hot spot on the screen. I spent way too long looking at the screen rather than the road.
The touch screen interface that Tesla has is cheaper to make and update than physical buttons, but it has drawbacks in a car where the driver needs to be able to control things without taking their eyes off the road. With a physical button interface, you can change settings by braille once you learn where all the controls are. You know the shape and location of all the buttons, so you can turn on things like the defroster without looking.