I like the design of the UI and think that there are a lot of good ideas here that could be used in other domains. But you started the video saying current designs are filled with intangible buttons and are therefore hard to control and are distracting, and I think there are some fundamental issues with this design that do not solve these problems.
If I'm already familiar with either my current car's touch screen UI or your design, I can do anything pretty quickly. So the real question is what happens when I don't know or remember exactly how to operate it. Say I'm driving on the highway at 60-70 mph, and I want to change my radio input. How many fingers was that? I can either try all the combinations, which would be incredibly distracting. Or I can figure out how to bring up that legend (better remember how though since there's no indication) and stare at the tiny buttons. Now, since only one option is displayed at a time, I need to figure out the spacial relationship between FM and AM. Is AM a swipe up or down from FM? Is there something in between? I need to constantly be checking the dashboard as new selections are made. This sounds incredibly distracting.
And I'm expected to do all of this while driving at 60 mph. Granted, much of the current touch screen UIs in cars suffer the same problems. But you haven't solved those problems in any meaningful way.
> All in all, this interface gives you easy control over 8 different settings. And it does that without you having to take your eyes off the road because you're being distracted trying to hit that one small button on the screen.
I have a hard time believing the vast majority of people would be able to operate this interface without taking their eyes off the road for a significant amount of time.
Fair points. I'm most excited about this actually:
>...good ideas here that could be used in other domains.
I'd love to see more touch UIs that serve as secondary input mechanism for something else. If I had a big color picker for Photoshop in my iPad I would already be ecstatic!
If I'm already familiar with either my current car's touch screen UI or your design, I can do anything pretty quickly. So the real question is what happens when I don't know or remember exactly how to operate it. Say I'm driving on the highway at 60-70 mph, and I want to change my radio input. How many fingers was that? I can either try all the combinations, which would be incredibly distracting. Or I can figure out how to bring up that legend (better remember how though since there's no indication) and stare at the tiny buttons. Now, since only one option is displayed at a time, I need to figure out the spacial relationship between FM and AM. Is AM a swipe up or down from FM? Is there something in between? I need to constantly be checking the dashboard as new selections are made. This sounds incredibly distracting.
And I'm expected to do all of this while driving at 60 mph. Granted, much of the current touch screen UIs in cars suffer the same problems. But you haven't solved those problems in any meaningful way.
> All in all, this interface gives you easy control over 8 different settings. And it does that without you having to take your eyes off the road because you're being distracted trying to hit that one small button on the screen.
I have a hard time believing the vast majority of people would be able to operate this interface without taking their eyes off the road for a significant amount of time.