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bypaul_engr ( 6280294 ) writes:
There's no muscle memory with pixels. Particularly since there's never a good place to brace your hand to reach halfway across a 12" wide screen to at least get in the ballpark without looking.
byMacMann ( 7518492 ) writes:
There's no muscle memory with pixels. Particularly since there's never a good place to brace your hand to reach halfway across a 12" wide screen to at least get in the ballpark without looking.
How hard would it be to put some kind of plastic overlay with holes cut into it where the different touch screen buttons are programmed to appear? Make the holes shaped like the function the virtual button behind it performs, kind of like the raised arrows and such on old school cassette deck buttons so people could find the button they want by feel as well as by looking. The plastic overlay on a touch screen can't really have raised indicators and retain the function, I'm thinking the holes being cut wou
bytaustin ( 171655 ) writes:
How hard would it be to put some kind of plastic overlay with holes cut into it where the different touch screen buttons are programmed to appear? Make the holes shaped like the function the virtual button behind it performs, kind of like the raised arrows and such on old school cassette deck buttons so people could find the button they want by feel as well as by looking.
Odds are, you'll be running your fingers across other controls that you don't want to activate trying to find the one you do. By the time you come up with a design to avoid that, you might as well have stayed with physical knobs.
If you need workarounds to make the "new, better technology" at least safe compared to the old, the new technology is shit.
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