Interesting to see users working around the lack of tactile buttons in some modern cars:

@danluu It's a drawback of smartphones, too. On my old Nokia, I could type up a storm without even looking at the screen. Despite three to four letters sharing a single button, the old physical keyboard allowed me to type faster and w/o visual feedback.
I do realize the many advantages of touchscreens but it's been a gambit. Flat buttons in cars have zero advantages though.

@danluu I drove my friend’s car for almost a month when mine was in the shop longer than expected due to shortage of replacement parts.

My friend’s car has a lot of (non-tactile) capacitive touch controls which almost always require drive to search for them to use.

For sure I wouldn’t get any cars like that.

I did this for the buttons on my standing desk, but the adhesive wasn’t that good and they fell off after not too long. In the end, I wound up leaving the desk in standing mode most of the time so I haven’t needed to figure out a more permanent solution anyway.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@danluu/112418095002975740

@alpha @danluu My standing desk (Jarvis) has the excellent affordance of the touch button to make it go up being on the bottom of the control widget, and the touch button to make it go down is on the top of the widget (it sticks out at a 30º angle underneath the desk.) So you “pull” it up and “push” it down with a fingertip. Don Norman would approve.

@danluu Once again happy that the most expensive car I've owned is a new Honda Fit/Jazz for $20,000 or so. Keep all that crap far away from me.