• seaQueue@lemmy.world
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    17 days ago

    Finally. Are they actually hiring decent UX folks this time or are they using the people who designed 1980s VCR programming UIs again?

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      17 days ago

      You mean like the 1985 Subaru XT Coupe? God I love that cassette futurism look!

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      17 days ago

      did 80s VCRs even have OSD? we went from a top loading National to a hi-fi so basically skipped the 80s. and 90s VRC UX would be perfectly acceptable as far as I’m concerned.

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        17 days ago

        They mostly didn’t have OSDs, they instead had indecipherable 7-segment and some fixed elements like ‘Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa’, with 2 or 3 buttons. The younger Gen-X/older Millennials got their reputation as ‘whiz kids’ in part by handling those interfaces on behalf of their mystified parents.