Yeah you’re right on that. Ford is probably number 3 behind Tesla and Rivian and there’s a BIG gap between them and Ford. Then probably a bigger gap between Ford and the next automaker.
Except that you’re not touching a button one place and then walking somewhere else to twist a knob. It’s. All. Right. There. It’s an array of HVAC controls, no more confusing than any other. You tap a button, twist the knob. Easy. You are straining to make an issue that doesn’t exist.
Yeah, they were comically big before so shrinking them for more efficient use of screen real-estate made sense, but making them that small and shoved in the corner overlayed onto a huge graphic taking up space? At least they condensed them onto the main drive mode screen but I can't say that was a good way of doing it.Not to harp on the bad UI design, but…
Why are the frunk, trunk, and charge port Icons wedged up in the corner. It’s like they said, “hey this functional graphic of the car is taking up too much space so let’s put in a smaller non functional one with tiny buttons hidden in it.” “Shoupd they be centered?” “Nah just throw them as far away from the driver as possible”
Good god they can’t figure out good design to save their lives. Lol
This seems to be one of the aspects where coolwalk improved when stealing this screen layout. They made the secondary task windows much smaller and the map much bigger...Hopefully the extra vertical space they gave CarPlay will fix this odd layout Apple uses. The map being so small and horizontal makes it less useful than the smaller layout.
I'm sure Ford is spending more resources on their next gen Android based system then they are on this yucky QNX spaghetti code in our cars.
Well at least they replaced the little non color coded visual of a Mach E with a large one that doesn't match my front grill in this version.
Unfortunately probably true.
I'm not so sure this is going to be less cognitive load than the current design, and will either reduce the number of glances or time to task completion.
Thank you! It’s like they way over corrected and made them tiny. I guarantee people are going to miss them and then be on here or FB asking where the buttons are.
I think it's really hard to argue that button press->physical dial movement is not a significant improvement vs button press-> touch screen slider (something that should be avoided by UI designers at all costs). Sure, it would be a lot better if we just had physical buttons, but given the existing hardware this is a great change.I'm not so sure this is going to be less cognitive load than the current design, and will either reduce the number of glances or time to task completion.
But it is a nice party trick
The only significant change from current design HVAC design is that, when tapping a function, the pop-up slider is replaced or supplemented by the knob function. Yes, it IS easier to use the tactile knob than trying to adjust those sliders. If the substitution of a tactile control increases your “cognitive load” I just don’t know…I'm not so sure this is going to be less cognitive load than the current design, and will either reduce the number of glances or time to task completion.
But it is a nice party trick
